VYGOTSKY’S THEORY
The staple of Vygotsky's method is
How does Vygotsky's
sociocultural theory apply to
cognitive development?
VYGOTSKY'S
SOCIOCULTURA
L THEORY OF
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
Vygotsky theory has been applied
According to Vygotsky, adults in
society foster children's cognitive
development by engaging them in
challenging and meaningful
activities. Adults convey to children
the way their culture interprets and
responds to the world. They show
the meaning they attach to objects,
events, and experiences.
an active co-construction of
investigative situation including the
very objects of investigation, with
pedagogical intervention
representing its paradigmatic form-
such as in teaching-learning
experiments.
successfully to education. Scaffolding
has shown to be an effective way of
teaching and based on this theory
teachers are trained to guide children
from they can do to the next step in
their learning through careful
scaffolding. Collaborative work is also
used in the classroom, mixing children
of different level of ability to make use
or reciprocal/peer teaching