LEARNING MOMENT 1: CORE CONCEPTS
PERSONAL DEFINITION AND EXPLANATION OF VIGOTSKY’S PHILOSOPHY
TUTOR: JULIO CESAR TULANDE RENGIFO
GROUP: 551018_10
LICENCIATURA EN INGLES COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA
OSCAR MAURICIO ORTIZ DELGADO
C.C. 91486878
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y ADISTANCIA (UNAD)
CEAD BUCARAMANGA
MARCH 2015
Vygotsky studied law, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. He also had medical training and wrote a total of 180 works. His psychological work spanned just the last 10 years of his life.
Unlike other approaches that emphasize only the interactions between the learner and the content to be learned, the originality of Vygotsky is to show the importance of social interactions that organize the activity of the learner.
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Model Poses their learning, through which argues that both processes, development and learning, interacting considering learning as a factor of development. In addition, the acquisition of learning explains like ways of socialization. He conceives the man more social than biological, where the higher functions are the result of cultural development and involve the use of mediators.
Five concepts that are fundamental considered:
Mental functions, psychological skills, the zone of proximal development, psychological tools and mediation.
For Vygotsky there are two types of mental functions: the lower and upper. The lower mental functions are those with which we are born, they are the natural functions and are determined genetically. The behavior derived from these functions is limited; is conditioned by what we can do.
Another implication of the zone of proximal development is education, but are closely related to the evaluation. Students should be placed in situations that although must strive to meet, also have the support of peers or the teacher.
Sometimes the best teacher is a student who has just solved the problem, since