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UNIT I
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

MODULE 11
Other Theories of Development:
VYGOTSKY’S SOCIO-CULTURAL THEORY

Objective:

At the end of the module;
a. The learner can understand the concept of Social Development Theory and apply it to
their learning goals.
b. The learner will have better understanding how social interaction affect their learning
development.

Activity: The goal of this activity is to teach students learn interpersonal skill among
other learners in the classroom.

The task is very easy and will requires the participation of every student. Students will have to
go find someone in the group and ask as much as he/she can within 2 minutes about the other
person personal information. The teacher is going to randomly pick anyone and ask them about
their partner’s personal info. If the participant that will be pick will not be able to answer the
question, both of them will be eliminated. Until such time that only two pairs will remain and
someone will be declared the winner.

Social Development Theory - argues that social interaction precedes development;
consciousness and cognition are the end product of socialization and social behavior.

Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory is the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-
1934) [1][2]. Vygotsky’s work was largely unknown to the West until it was published in 1962.
Vygotsky’s theory is one of the foundations of constructivism. It asserts three major themes
regarding social interaction, the more kknowledgeable other, and the zone of proximal
development.

According to Vygotsky;
1. Person’s interpersonal, or internal processes, have their roots in interactions with others.

2. Emphasized language and social interaction much more than Piaget

3. Proposed that developmental progress occurs through discussion and reasoning in a social
context (language is a tool use to aid development)

4. Soviet Dialectical theory

a. Contradiction spurs development
b. Start with one notion (thesis)

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