Socio cultural theory Vygotsky and Rogoff

• Importance of society and culture

• Culture determines your everyday interactions
• Guided participation
• Pro social play
• Social competence
 Social media
• Digital natives (Prensky, 2001)
• Social media is where young people build and
form social relationships, express themselves,
form their identity (read your text book section 4)
• Worrying trends for adolescent mental health
and well being
• Full journal article:
https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.
au/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797616645673
 Prosocial behaviours
1. Recognition stage the child must be able to
observe and decide if someone needs
assistance
2. Secondly a decision to help or not.
3. In the third step a child acts and this involves
selection and follow through of a behavior
that matches situation (Kostelnik et al.,
1988).
 Promoting Self-Control

Children demonstrate self-control when they

1) control their impulses, wait, and suspend
action
2) tolerate frustration
3) postpone immediate gratification
4) initiate a plan and carry it out over time
(Marion, 2003).
 Teachers’ fostering the development of self-
control
• Redirecting
• Modeling
• Logical consequences
• Teach emotional literacy
 Socio-cognitive theories
• Bandura’s developed the socio cognitive
theory based on the idea of observational
learning. That people learn behaviours
(desirable and undesirable) by observing
others. They then repeat or perform these
learned behaviours.
• The idea being that people are active agents
who influence and are influenced by their
environment.
 Kohlberg’s Moral reasoning
• A shift of focus here to understand Kohlberg’s
moral reasoning watch and test yourself in
response to Heinz’s Dilemma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALE5H9By
ms0
• The story of Heinz will be what you remember
this theory of moral development.
 Attachment Theory
• Bowlby's evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that
children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to
form attachments with others, because this will help them to
survive
• Most children will form a network of attachment
relationships – with family and other people who care for
them.
• Research has shown that the nature of all these
attachment relationships – including between children and
their caregivers and teachers – have important impacts on
cognitive and social functioning and development.” (Rolfe,
2004, p.6)