Lev Vygotsky's Social Development Theory

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Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky, who is he? He is a theorist, his theories cover social learning, cognitive development, and language. Before you can completely understand these theories, you need to understand what cognitive development is and what social learning is. Cognitive development is the development of intelligence, problem-solving and conscious thought. Which is believed to start at infancy. Social learning is which is the idea that children and people learn from social interaction. Although Lev Vygotsky died at the age of 38, before he can finish his theories. Lev Vygotsky’s cognitive development theory and his social development theory, are hand to hand. He stresses in many occasions that interacting socially is a huge part in cognitive development. Vygotsky 's theories explain that development depends on interaction with people, Vygotsky (1978) says that "Every function in the child 's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between …show more content…

They are often used/compared to Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget is another theorist, with some of the same ideas. Some of the same ideas they had are, they both believed that children play is an active way of learning, cognitive development requires both physical and social stimulation and children need to be active in order to develop thinking. The differences between the two are Piaget believed the end point of cognitive development was adolescent, a child acts on his own environment for learning, a child 's mind is a child’s mind, hands on activities help hugely on growth, and a child constructs his/her own knowledge. Where Vygotsky

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