EDUC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lev Vygotsky, Vocab (Song)
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Social construction of meaning: the importance of society and culture in promoting children"s cognitive growth, what mediates between situations encountered and the meanings they convey. Cognitive tools: tools used to acquire meaning. Internalization: children begin to give themselves the instructions to guide their behaviors that heretofore have been provided by others. Self-talk or private speech: talking aloud to oneself. Cultural tools: talking to oneself mentally rather than allowed, technical tools (the act on the environment) and physiological tools (that facilitate thinking) passed on from generation to generation. Zone of proximal development: the range of tasks that lie between actual development and potential development. Scaffolding: assistance provided by others that enables children to proceed through their zone of development. Lecture: soviet psychologist, work only known after his death (1970"s, iron curtain, social construction of meaning. Teachers, parents, peers interact with children to help them learn: internalization: changing social activities into mental activities.
