Influences on Life and Ideas Expressed by Vygotsky

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Influences on Life and Ideas Expressed by Vygotsky

Many different people in all sorts of situations have influenced us throughout our lives. Some of these influences where at times when we cannot remember, and some as recent as five minutes ago. Not only do we not remember all of our influences, but we also do not recognize all of our influences because many factors in our lives affect us subconsciously.

In this paper I am relating some of the major influences of my life to some of the ideas expressed by Vygotsky. As I understand it, scaffolding is one of the major ideas. Just like a construction scaffold is a temporary means of support, Vygotsky's idea is a way of influencing someone, especially a child, by temporarily showing the person the idea and then allowing them to do the work. It is a way to support someone in their learning process but not holding them up.

Throughout my early ages it is really hard to determine who influenced me. Looking at myself as a young adult, I can definitely look at myself as being influenced tremendously by my father. However, whe...

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