Lev VygotskyChild Development Theorist

Lev Vygotsky

Didn’t believe in stages such as Piaget suggested

Each child is an individual who learns distinctively

Learning is based on language and social interaction

Lev Vygotsky

Parents, teachers, and peers promote learning

Children play a key role in their own learning

Children influence the learning of their peers

Learning takes place and is dependent

upon the social environment

Lev Vygotsky

Learning should occur through collaboration between student and teacher rather than lecturing

The environment would include clustered tables for collaboration and small group instruction

Teachers and students would take turns leading the small group

Lev Vygotsky

Past experience and prior knowledge are the basis or new learning

Scaffolding is used: all new knowledge uses previously learned knowledge as it’s basis.

Anyone can teach a child as long as they possess more knowledge than the child in a particular area

Lev Vygotsky

Behavior is learned through interaction and observation with others

The Bobo doll experiment led to the assertion that if a child is exposed to violent behavior, that child will most likely repeat the violent behavior.