Bronfenbrenner Theory: The Challenges Of Maria And Brandon's Educational Career

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Both Maria and Brandon faced many obstacles in their educational career. Given their circumstances, focusing and learning in school became difficult for each individual child. Not only were both entering a new stage in their education career, which in this case was middle school, but also both held many responsibilities after school. With Maria, culture and language played an important role in her education. With Brandon, his family’s social economic status plays a very important role in his motivation and education. As they get older both children face many responsibilities outside of school and cannot succeed in school. According to Bronfenbrenner theory family, peers, and social institutions such as school influence Brandon and …show more content…

Marcia describes psychological moratorium as a gap between the security of childhood and the autonomy of adulthood. I believe Brandon’s status is identity moratorium. Brandon loves his math teacher and wants to become a math teacher but his exploration ends there. He also thinks that he is not performing well in middle school and doubts going to college. His self-concept is only positive in math but when it comes to the other subjects he is not as confident. If Brandon sticks with his instinct and love for math he can become a math teacher. Ultimately Brandon’s inspirations can lead to identity achievement if he does not stop believing in his passion for …show more content…

Kohlberg describes stages of moral reasoning and in each stage our acceptance of right and wrong changes especially since we link it to society norms. Maria fits into stage three which is the interpersonal harmony stage. Her ethnical decisions are based on the opinions of others. For example she does not raise her hand in class because she thinks she is stupid. Maria also copies the homework of another student just so that the teacher would not have any negative comments about not having her homework completed. Maria knows that copying someone’s homework is not allowed, she prefers the consequences of getting caught than the consequences of not doing the homework. In order to continue copying the student’s homework her token of loyalty is to pretend that she is the girlfriend of that

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