SED PE 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lev Vygotsky, Observational Learning, Motor Skill
23 Jul 2020
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2 essential steps of learning: acquisition, internalization. Learning occurs in social groups through on-going interactions between people. Wo do not learn by receiving information passively. Learning involves actively constructing our own meaning linked to what we already know. Disequilibrium: process that occurs when we information comes to light is essential for effective learning. Children learn through social interaction with adults and more capable others (peers) (mco) They learn best when engaged in task with more capable others (zpd) zone of proximal. Zone of proximal development (zpd: 1st social level inter-psychological, comparing a new skill to what you know and what you have seen before in order to learn it, then on the individual intra-psychological. Completing new tasks with help from a knowing other . With a little bit of help, we can learn to increase our skill level and advance to the next. Learning is not linear more like a stair.
