EDUC 40 Lecture 9: Lecture 12- week 6
Document Summary
Adults convey cultural interpretations through informal interactions and formal schooling. Through and language become increasingly interdependent early in childhood. Every culture passes along physical and cognitive tools. Complex mental processes begin as social activities and evolve into mental activities. Children appropriate cultures tools to meet their needs. Children can perform more challenging tasks when assisted. Play allows children to stretch themselves cognitively zone of proximal development. The experience of a learner who works successfully with the support of another person and extends his or her knowledge in the process. Dynamic assessment: difference between piaget and vygotsky. Vygotsky believes that you need to guide kids and piaget thinks that they are little scientist that can go out and explore on their own. Piaget- individual developmental precedes learning- universal development across cultures. Vygotsky- social development tends to precede learning cultural variation. Vygotsky is about the environment where piaget is more on bio and envt.
