SCT in praxis

SCT in praxis

1. Sociocultural factors are significant in the development of the human being‘s mental processes.

   • The essential and determining factor in the development of higher mental activities including voluntary attention, intentional memory, logical thought, planning and problem solving.

2. In order for an individual to become a competent speaker of a language, the mere personal effort would not result in the mastery of the language unless he benefits from other people‘s (especially adult) participation to negotiate through the Zone of Proximal Development(ZPD).

   • ZPD contributes to shaping the mental functions of a child which has not become mature yet, but will develop in future.

3. Internalization is, the process by which intermental functioning in the form of social relations among individuals and interaction with socially constructed artifacts is turned inwards and transformed into intramental functioning

4. Mediation refers to the use of ‗tools‘.

   • Tools in this sense refer to anything that is used in order to help solve a problem or achieve a goal. The most important of these tools is symbolic language

5. Inner speech arises in a developmental fashion: first there is social speech, then comes the egocentric speech of children and finally inner speech is formed.

6. what an individual is able to do with assistance of another person or an artifact created by others.

   • Assistance can be offered in the form of direct and explicit instructions, such as those happening in schools or educational institutes