CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vygotsky’s social development theory asserts that a child’s cognitive development and learning ability can be guided and mediated by their social interactions. His theory (also called Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory) states that learning is a crucially social process as opposed to an independent journey of discovery.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lev Vygotsky was influenced by Ivan Pavlov and Jean Piaget. Pavlov’s conditioned reflex influenced Vygotsky’s thinking, as well as Pavlov’s use of the scientific method. Vygotsky valued the process of scientific investigation that typified Pavlov’s work.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sociocultural theory of human learning explains learning as a social process. This theory believes that human intelligence originates from our cultural environment and that social interaction plays a key role in developing cognition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget proposed that children progress through the stages of cognitive development through maturation, discovery methods, and some social transmissions through assimilation and accommodation (Woolfolk, A., 2004). Vygotsky’s theory stressed the importance of culture and language on one’s cognitive development.