Lev Vygotsky by Peyton Thompson
Peyton Thompson
Created on October 25, 2023
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Lev Vygotsky
November 17, 1896 - June 11, 1934
About Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky was born in Orsha, Belarus, but spent most of his earlier years in Gomel. He went to university at Moscow State University in 1913 to get a law degree in 1917, but studied other subjects such as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and sociology. After attending the Second All-Russian Psychoneurological Congress in 1924, he became a staff scientist at the Psychological Institute in Moscow and became a secondary school teacher because of his interest in studying learning.
Lev's Core Belief
Vygotsky believed in learning as an active process rather than a passive one. One rooted in social interaction and collaboration. He also emphasized the importance of the role of an instructor in a student’s learning.
Theories
Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
Vygotsky’s Concept of More Knowledgable Other
Vygotsky’s social development theory
A measure used to see how much more or less a student can learn something independently vs in a group or with the assistance of a teacher or tutor.
Zone of Proximal Development
Silent inner speech- inner monologue.
Private speech-speech directed towards yourself but said out loud. “thinking out loud”
Social speech- between the child and another person
A child’s learning ability can be helped by their social interaction and by language and communication in the following three ways:
Vygotsky's Social Developmental Theory
This theory places importance on learning from a “more knowledgeable other” or MKO, which can be a teacher, parent, or even a peer who is more skilled in a certain area than the child.
Vygotsky’s Concept of More knowledgeable Other.
His Theories were social-cultural cognative theories
Interesting Fact
After Lev’s death in 1934, Joseph Stallin actually banned his work for more than 20 years and couldn’t be accessed by the western world until even after that.
He wrote six books:
- Educational Psychology (1926)
- Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology (1927)
- Thinking and Speech (1934)
- Tool and Symbol in Child Development (1934)
- Mind in Society (1978)
- Thought and Language (1986).
Other Information
Impact
He created the two major contributions to the understanding of human development: Zone of Proximal Development and Social Cultural Theory. He is still remembered today because of the increase in awareness of the impact of collaboration in education, both with instructors and with peers.
Impact
He created the two major contributions to the understanding of human development: Zone of Proximal Development and Social Cultural Theory. He is still remembered today because of the increase in awareness of the impact of collaboration in education, both with instructors and with peers.