Vygotsky Sociocultural Theory Essay

Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
Vygotsky (1934 – 1987) Vygotsky perspective on sociocultural theory, his focal point is how culture relates with beliefs, values, traditions and skills in social surroundings and how they are passed from generation to generation. Vygotsky sates that social interaction is very important and how children socialise with each other in cooperative play and how they use communication with extended people who surround them in society. It is how children obtain ways of how their thoughts and actions in a community of different cultures. Vygotsky states that adults that are very knowledgeable as well as their peers can assist children to build the skills for culturally interactive play. Children communicating with their peers help them in their thinking. It is how children communicate using their languages helps them in their thinking and how they master new skills. For e.g. a young child who watches an adult tidying up they in return eventually learn to have the skills how to do it themselves. Research states that the social influences and adults that support children’s culturally valued skills at a very young age and develop more skills as they grow older and every culture they develop different strengths in their learning. He states that children that participate in communication and in social experiences they build culturally valued practices that change and alter those same actions. Vygotsky sociocultural theory that children individual and interaction in society if they are well- balanced has importance in their role. It is essential that children’s interaction with their family members as they socialise and learn more about their culture and help them build on their knowledge and is essential in suc...

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... play was an important part in which children to perform a schema. e.g. a child learning to blow up a balloon over and over again. They learn about the different sounds and noise it makes. Accommodation is a complementary process. According to Piaget in accommodation the old schema doesn’t work with the new information that children pick up so the schema changes to accommodate this. Piaget thought if a child has both of assimilation and accommodation balanced this can help them in their environment. He believed that this is the universal of principles for children’s development. (Claiborne & Drewery, 2010)

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