Vigotsky´s theory

the majour theme of Vogotsky´s theorical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognitive.
every fuction in the child´s cultural development appers twice.
1. social level
2. individual level
the potential for cognitive development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" ( ZPD)
1. a level of development attained when children engage in social behaivour , the ZPD depends upon full social interaction .
Vigotsky theory was an attempt to explain consiousness as the end product of socialization.
1. for example : lin the learning of language, our firs utterances with peers or adults "inner speech"
Vigotsky´s theory is coplementary to Bandura´s work on social learning and a key componets of situated learning theory as well
1. Vigotsky´s focus was on cognitive development.
  1. is interesting to comparate his views those a constructivist (Bruner) and a genetic epistemologist (Piaget)
most of the original wok was done in the contex of context of language learning in children (Vigotsky, 1985)
Vigitsky give the example: initially, this behaivour beings as a meaningless grasping motion.
1. as people react to the gesture, its become a movement that has meaning.

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	Created by Lorena Samano almost 6 years ago