EAR-20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Longitudinal Study, Dynamical System
Document Summary
Vygotskys sociocultral theory blends the many different levels into one overarching. Culture the ways of thinking that the child acquires from more knowledgeable members of the community. Emphasis the unique collective wisdom complied by a culture and transmitted to the child through ongoing, daily interactions with the more knowledgeable members of society. Culture includes- language, practices, values and beliefs. Accumulation of ones surrounding has enormous influence on the way children are reared. Believe language is an especially important tool in the dialogue because it is internalized by the child to affect thinking and problem solving. A quality that permeates biological and soiccultral models of development is that the child is affected by and actively influences their surrounds. Development is dynamic, a never ending transaction involving continuing reciprocal exchanges. People and settings transform the child who in turn affects the people and settings surround him, which further shape the child in an endless progression. Certain research strategies take on certain significance.
