Lev Vygotsky
Kiana Johnson
Explanation
- Stress the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition Vygotsky
Pros & Cons
Pros
*Imaginary substitutions help children separate thinking from objective.
*Rules strengthen capacity to think before acting
*Helps children understand social norms & expectation
Cons
-Little scientific to support or contradict the concept
-A lot of emphasis on social interaction & culture that many others aspects for development are missed
-No full explanation for development problems & individual difference
General Information
- Community plays a central role in this process
- Argues, that "learning is a necessary and universal aspect of the process of developing culturally organized, specifically human psychological function"
- Vygotsky has developed a socio-cultural approach to cognitive development
- Developed his theory around the same time Jean Piaget was starting to develop his theories
- Application of the Social Development Theory to Instructional Design
- The effectiveness of Social Development Theory in achieving its Goal
Classroom Applied
- Hints & prompts that helped children during assessment could form basis of instructional activities
- High School. laboratory science class a teacher might give student details guides to carrying out experiment, then give them a brief outlines that they might use to structure experiments, & then ask them to set up a experiment
Today In Classrooms
- Yes, vygotsky does still exist and some of today classrooms