Vygotsky's Development On Children And Their Early Child Development

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Human Development Essay This essay will be discussing how the societies, cultures, and families influence children in their early childhood development. And links to three theorists’ perspectives of human development. Vygotsky(Berk,2007) is well-known for his Socio-Cultural theory that children are influenced by culture, education, family and religion, and society makes great contributions to an individual development. He believed that children are actively involved in their learning process and he stressed the interactions between the developing children and the societies in which they live in. In Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural theory, young children’s development is closely related to their social activities, a lot of children’s learning is socially …show more content…

As a result, they gain dramatically in reasoning and problem solving(Berk, 2007, p. 23).Children learn from both more competent adults and peers through their social interaction. According to Vygotsky, social interaction—in particular, cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society-in necessary for children to acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a community’s culture(Rowe&Wertsch,2002).The Socio-Cultural theory is linked to the term scaffolding. Early childhood teachers support children when they need help to achieve goals. Scaffolding is the support provided when a child cannot do something independently, it is used to advance and extend a child’s development, and helps the child to achieve his/her potential capabilities. The teacher can gradually begin to remove this support so that the learner has the ability of completing …show more content…

It is formed from the interaction and activities in the child’s the most direct surroundings, therefore, it has the most direct influence on development. According to Bronfenbrenner, we need to be aware that all relationships are bi-directional in order to understand the microsystem. For example, “adults affect children’s behavior, but children’s biologically and socially influenced characteristics—their physical attributes, personalities, and capacities—also affect adults’ behavior”.(Berk, 2007, p. 24). A well-behaved child is more likely to provoke a parent’s

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