EDUC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pragmatics, Language Development, Lev Vygotsky
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Piaget: children cognitively grow up in four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational. Collaborative: child is the apprentice, vygotsky viewed cognitive development as requiring interactions with other people, usually an older peer, an older sibling, a parent, a teacher where the child is the learner. Child assumes more important social roles and responsibilities: learn to think and grow so they can be a part of their community. Development is continuous: not in stages, but ongoing, continuous, depends on interactions, exposure, who the child is. Scaffolding: parents, older peers, and technology can support a child"s learning by offering assistance. Offering that assistance until you can ride a two-wheel. Happens with your development as far as gross motor. You have to be big enough, you need spatial perception to understand the space of what"s going on around you, you need a center of gravity (sense of balance), etc.
