CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lev Vygotsky’s theory suggests that students learn by connecting what they know to new learning. This is why teachers need to show the students the connections between what they know and what they are learning. This can be applied to reading fluency and reading comprehension.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Vygotsky claimed that we are born with four ‘elementary mental functions’ : Attention, Sensation, Perception, and Memory. It is our social and cultural environment that allows us to use these elementary skills to develop and finally gain ‘higher mental functions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vygotsky (1930-1935/1978) proposed that infants are born with a few elementary mental functions – attention, sensation, perception and memory – that are eventually transformed by the culture into new and more sophisticated mental processes he called higher mental functions.