Vygotsky Flashcards
Scaffolding study
Block building activity, showed child what to do using verbal assistance. Level of assistance declined as the activity carried on.
Guided participation with socio cultural activity
Children engage in cultural activities whilst adults model. Child can reconstruct knowledge so that the culture is maintained.
Internalisation
States that children learn through social experiences.
Zone of proximal development
Distance between what a child can learn on its own and what the same child could achieve with guidance from a adult.
Guided participation study
Transmission of knowledge on cookie sale.
Looked at guided values, interaction with family, who the girls changed as a result of their involvement. Found older members passed down knowledge, changed and reshape do involvement.
Vygotsky and language
Heavily dependant on language
Language provides a framework for thinking
Affects the way in which children think, by having conversations with parents and others
Vygotsky and education
Peer tutoring-child learns though interactions with other children.
Collective arguementation-structured group discussion where individuals view points are presented and justified.
Community enquiry-pupils having an active role with lessons structured as a joint activity where teacher and learner take the role of researcher and strive together to carry out tasks.
Eval of vygotsky
Over instruction may lead to child becoming less likely to be independent and less initiative.
ZPD shows you can accelerate a child’s development. Conflicting Piaget belief of cognitive ready.
Vygotsky has been used for peer tutoring
Children may take years to master a complex skill even with support of others.
Explains culture and cognitive development unlike piagets stage theory
Some adults may not enhance but inhibit
Scaffolding?
Form of instruction in which a child is given s level of help and support which is gradually reduced as a child becomes more competent.
