CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both Piaget and Vygotsky emphasized the importance of social interactions in cognitive development, but Piaget saw a different role for interaction. Piaget believed that the most helpful interactions were those between peers, because peers are on an equal basis and can challenge each other’s thinking.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Vygotsky’s Cognitive Development Theory postulates that social interaction is fundamental to cognitive development. Vygotsky’s theory is comprised of concepts such as culture-specific tools, language and thought interdependence, and the Zone of Proximal Development.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vygotsky argued that social learning preceded cognitive development. In other words, culture affects cognitive development. Whereas Piaget asserted that all children pass through a number of universal stages of cognitive development, Vygotsky believed that cognitive development varied across cultures.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vygotsky’s Theory of Sociocultural Cognitive Development Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) was a Russian psychologist and teacher who developed a theory about how our social interactions influence our cognitive development. This is known as Lev Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development.

Detailed explanation-5: -Piaget also argued that social interaction is part and parcel of the process of equilibration and that it is important in stimulating this process of development (Chapman, 1992). Piaget’s action-based notion of cooperation surpasses the issue of cultural relativism.