Human Growth and Development / Unit 3 HGD 0358 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vygotsky and Cultural Tools
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The idea
Vygotsky held that children develop through interaction with caregivers, peers and culture, using cultural tools such as language, counting systems and maps.
In practice
A toddler building a puzzle while a parent talks through each step, words the toddler later repeats.
Where people slip
For Vygotsky, culture is inseparable from learning: the partner's social speech becomes the child's private speech, aloud and then silent.
Your place on the trail
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