Vigotsky´s theory

Vigotsky´s theory

1. the majour theme of Vogotsky´s theorical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognitive.

2. every fuction in the child´s cultural development appers twice.

   • social level
   • individual level

3. the potential for cognitive development depends upon the "zone of proximal development" ( ZPD)

   • a level of development attained when children engage in social behaivour , the ZPD depends upon full social interaction .

4. Vigotsky theory was an attempt to explain consiousness as the end product of socialization.

   • for example : lin the learning of language, our firs utterances with peers or adults "inner speech"

5. Vigotsky´s theory is coplementary to Bandura´s work on social learning and a key componets of situated learning theory as well

   • Vigotsky´s focus was on cognitive development.
     • is interesting to comparate his views those a constructivist (Bruner) and a genetic epistemologist (Piaget)

6. most of the original wok was done in the contex of context of language learning in children (Vigotsky, 1985)

7. Vigitsky give the example: initially, this behaivour beings as a meaningless grasping motion.

   • as people react to the gesture, its become a movement that has meaning.

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