Socio-cultural theory

Vygotsky is a:

• Behaviorist

• Social Cognitive

• Humanist

• Socioculturalist

Sone of Proximal Development is:

• The distance between what a child can do by themselves and what they can do with the help of others.

• The growth characterized by a child's ability.

• A zone where children work really well together

Vygotsky believes that:

• Nurture determines someone's intelligence

• Nature determines someone's intelligence

• Both nature and nurture determines someone's intelligence

• the language is the determinants of intelligence

Vygotsky defines the role of a teacher as:

• No direct role

• Facilitate discovery learning

• Center of the teaching-learning process

• Scaffolding and guided discovery

Role of language

• As a tool and mediator of language

• mediates learning

• Language is a result of cognitive development

Cognitive process of Socio-cultural development

• Operations in stages

• Depends on context and ZPD

• Stages of increasing abstraction

• multiple intelligences

Both Piaget and Vygotsky emphasized the importance of social interactions in cognitive development, but Piaget saw a different role for interaction.

Piaget believed that the most helpful interactions were those between peers, because peers are on an equal basis and can challenge each other’s thinking. Vygotsky, on the other hand...

• Vygotsky believed that children’s cognitive development is fostered by interactions with other children with the same problem.

• Vygotsky suggested that children’s cognitive development is fostered by interactions with their grandparents.

• Vygotsky suggested that children’s cognitive development is fostered by interactions with people who are more capable or advanced in their thinking—people such as parents and teachers

• Vygotsky suggested that children’s cognitive development is fostered by interactions with his/her family who are no capable or advanced in their thinking—people such as parents, grandparents, brothers or sisters.

Actively manipulates objects/ideas, continually invents/reinvents knowledge through interaction with the world

• Jean Piaget

• Lev Vygotsky

Scaffolding, Social interactions, cultural development, internalization

• Jean Piaget

• Lev Vygotsky

Engage learners in socially-organized activities, provide scaffolding for learners

• Jean Piaget

• Lev Vygotsky