Vygotsky Theory

Vygotsky Theory

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Introduction

Socio cultural theories are one of the most enticing and emerging theories of the psychology right now, and their importance has been increasing day to day as these theories reflect many things from learning to human nature and habits around us.The socio cultural theories deal with how a social environment that surrounds us or any other individual reflects our habits and decisions that we make in our day to day daily lives. 

However, the following discussion will focus on the effects of socio cultural theory of Vygotsky on children and child hood learning itself. The impacts of this socio cultural theory in the context of child learning and their families will also be analyzed and discussed at full. Furthermore, child hood learning in the context of historical and socio-political context will also be discussed with the effects of external influences, such as international philosophical and/or theoretical shifts in educational emphasis, on the roles of early childhood educators.

Discussion

According to the psychologist Lev Vygotsky, higher order functions are the responsibilities of the care givers, peers and parents that surround the order. In simple words, the people that are responsible for the grooming of the new era, a new or a new generation are the parents, guardians and the care takers themselves. This is the theory that was named as the socio cultural theory later on.

According to this theory, children cultural development goes through two main functions namely, sociological function and the individual function. Both of these functions are responsible for learning and developing of a child and any individual who is at a grooming stage of his or her life. These functions mainly hit the higher level functions of a human mind that includes logical memory, voluntary attention and the formation of concepts throughout life.

In order to back this classical theory, Lev Vygotsky also devised a socio cultural theory which he named as the “zone of proximal development.” According to this theory of Lev Vygotsky, every individual goes through two different planes or distances throughout his or her life, one distance is where an individual or a child solves his problems on his own and does things and deal with matters without using any guidance or help while in the other distance, a child or an individual needs and gets assisted by adults and other experienced personnel who create better problem solving criteria's for him. In simple words, the second distance defines that a person learns and understands things from which he cannot perform by ...