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Vygotsky Social Culture Theory - Coggle Diagram
Vygotsky Social Culture Theory
1. Places more emphasis on culture affecting cognitive development
The beliefs, values and customs of the parents.
Through beliefs, values and customs that the parent has will shape how the child interacts and behaves in the community
By placing emphasis on culture will help the child to differentiate what is acceptable and unacceptable in the community
Places more emphasis on culture affecting cognitive development
Cognitive development stems from social interactions from guided learning within the zone of proximal developmental as children and their partner’s co-construct knowledge
The environment in which children grow up will influence how they think and what they think about
Cooperative or collaborative dialogue
The child seeks to understand the actions or instructions provided by the tutor (parents/ teacher) and internalises the information, using it to guide or regulate their own performance
Eg.) Young girl who is given her first jigsaw
She performed poorly when she attempted the puzzle herself but when her dad sat with her and shared some basic strategies, she could put the puzzle together and her dad offered encouragement when she could put the pieces together.
3. How culture is passed down through social interaction between child and a more knowledgable other
Parents or teachers are a child's more knowledgable other
Teachers can teach children about the multiracial culture we have
Parents can teach and educate their children on the culture they practice by telling them stories or teaching them routines they practice in that culture.
4. According to Vygotsky, adults are an important source of cognitive development
Adults pass on their culture’s tools of intellectual adaptation that children incorporate. (Differs from piaget’s views as Piaget emphasises the significance of peers interactions that promotes social perspective taking.
As more knowledgeable other will help to scaffold children's learning through social interaction (E.g guiding the child in problem solving skills and enhance language development)
Effects of Culture
Attention, Sensation, Perception & Memory
Allows children to use the basic mental functions more effectively
Example, in our culture we learn to note-stake to aid memory. But in other societies, strategies must be developed, such as tying knots over and over again, repetition of actions.
Sees that ALL cognitive functions are AFFECTED by beliefs, values and tools of intellectual adaption of the culture in which a person develops in. Hence, SOCIO-CULTURALLY determined