Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Vygotsky's theory is based on the social aspect of young children's cognition. Children are curious and observant and whose cognition is stimulated and directed by more skilled and older members of a society. This is called apprentice in thinking. He also believed children learn to think via guided participation or learn from others who guide their exploration and experiences. ZPD are skills that a person can exercise only with assistance, and are not yet independent at achieving the skill. Scaffolding is used to teach a certain skill needed, through guided participation, to help children with what is needed to master the next task in any given learning process.
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I also did Vygotsky and you hit most of the same points I did. I think that Vygotsky's view are not that far off. I can understand that children are more curious and observant because that is the way they learn the best.
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