CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lev Vygotsky was born November 17, 1896, in Orsha, a city in the western Russian Empire. In 1917, he earned a law degree at Moscow State University, where he studied a range of topics including sociology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vygotsky was an innovative psychologist who made significant advancements in the field of child development. Vygotsky’s short career focused on child development, developmental psychology, and educational philosophy.

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 argued that higher mental abilities could only develop through the interaction with more advanced others. Vygotsky proposed that children are born with elementary mental abilities such as memory and perception and that higher mental functions develop from these through the influence of social interactions.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.