Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lev Vygotsky
- Who is he?
- Lev Vygotsky was a Soviet Psychologist and the founder of a
theory on human cultural and bio-social development which is
more commonly known as 'cultural historical psychology'.
- He was also the founder of the Vygotsky
circle - a group of scholars compromising
mostly of psychologists, educationalists,
medical specialists, physiologists and
neuroscientists who were all associated
with Vygotsky.
- His main work was
based in
developmental
psychology because he
proposed the idea of
the theory of the
development of much
higher cognitive
functions within
children.
- What is his theory
- Vygotsky's work has
become a foundation of
the majority of research
and theories into
cognitive development,
also known as the Social
Development Theory.
- His theories stress the
fundamental role that
social interaction plays in
the development of a
child's cognition because he
believed that the
community plays a central
role in this process.
- Unlike Piaget's notion that
childrens' development must come
before their learning, Vygotsky
argued, "“learning is a necessary and
universal aspect of the process of
developing culturally organized,
specifically human psychological
function”" (www.simply
psychology.org)
- How this informs current practice in relation to;
- Child Behaviour
- Enabling Environments
- Practioner Interaction