Vygotsky

The major theme of Vygotsky's theoretical framework is that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. Vygotsky (1978) states: "Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals."

Cooperative learning is a student-centered, instructor-facilitated instructional strategy in which a small group of students is responsible for its own learning and the learning of all group members. Students interact with each other in the same group to acquire and practice the elements of a subject matter in order to solve a problem, complete a task or achieve a goal.

This article shows the readers the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. The psychologist Vygotsky stated that a childs follows an adult's example and gradually develops the ability to do certain tasks without help or assistance, can reach the zone of potential development and ensure himself reaching in high potentialy successfully achievements.

In this article, the writer is defining the" zone of proximal development" as the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by an independent problem that could be solved by reaching the learner potential level of development under adults \ teachers guidance

This article explains how Vygotsky has ormulated several requirements or criteria about 3 aspacts that focus on what the featured that should be presented by a the model of child development: 1. The first aspact is focusing on the idea that the level of the devlopment is the most important character in learning process, and not the "range of tasks" that a person can preform. 2. The second aspect emphasizes how an adult/teacher/more competent person should interact with a child. 3. The third aspect focuses on "properties of the learner", including notions of a learner's potential to acquire knowledge.

there is an interaction between learning and developing that are characterized by a developmental process which is stimulated by the course of the school learning. In actuality, there are complex dynamic relation between developmental and the learning processes. The process of learning is completly and inseparably blended with the process of development.

The writer iterprets and applies Vygotsky's ideas about emotions, personality and behavioural mastery.

"This article uses three central tenets of a Vygotskian framework to examine the relation between learning and development: (a) social sources of individual development, (b) semiotic (signs and symbols, including language) mediation in human development, and (c) genetic (developmental) analysis. The role played by culture and language in human development is an essential aspect of the Vygotskian framework and provides an overarching theme for this article"

a book that describes in details the theory of vygotzky. There is also bigraphy in the begining.

the proximal zone - the gap between what a young student has at a given moment and what can he reach with the guideness of a teacher, or someone with more experience, that can lead him to maximize the capability of achevements during the period of childhood.

according to what i understood, this article explains why vygotzky's theories became popular only recently, although he had already died some decades ago.

a book about vygotzky, that contains 7 chapters: " Chapter 1 provides an overview of Vygotsky's life, the social conditions in which his ideas emerged, and factors influencing the spread of his work. Chapter 2 offers a detailed description of Vygotsky's perspective on development, including the notions of cognition as socially constructed and shared, and language as the critical link between the social and the psychological planes of human functioning. Chapter 3 focuses on Vygotsky's view of the development and significance of children's imaginative or make-believe play. Chapter 4 summarizes Vygotsky's perspective on children with serious learning and behavior problems. Chapter 5 compares Vygotsky's approach to other major theories of child development in this century, clarifying its profound implications for early childhood education. Chapter 6 addresses contemporary applications of Vygotsky's theory to teaching and learning in early childhood classrooms. Finally, chapter 7 considers Vygotsky's theory as a vision for early childhood education--one that resolves the debate over academic versus child-centered programs by advocating responsiveness to children's current capacities in ways that move development forward".

a book that describes the "activity theory", which is based on among others on the psychological theories of vygotzkty.

Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press.

Sociocultural approaches to learning and development were first systematized and applied by L. S. Vygotsky and his collaborators in Russia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties. They are based on the concept that human activities take place in cultural contexts, are mediated by language and other symbol systems, and can be best understood when investigated in their historical development.

The Mozart of Psychology Lev Semenovich Vygotsky 1896-1934Lev Vygotsky as a young man Introduction Vygotsky in Context Historical and Contemporary Significance Marxism and Education Vygotsky's Childhood and Education Early Career At His Peak Vygotsky's Legacy Vygotsky's Fall from Favour Vygotsky's Theoretical Toolbox Socio-Cultural Development Genetic Development Higher Versus Elementary Psychological

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