EDUF2006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lev Vygotsky, James Goulding, Metacognition
13 Aug 2019
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Key principle: your view of learning is and how it occurs will fundamentally shape how you teach. Piaget typically depicts the developing child as a lone, inventive, young scientist, struggling to make independent sense of the surrounding world. (phillips, 1995, p. 9) Vygotsky argued that such tools became the key to the development of our capacity to think. Indeed, all higher forms of thinking, he argued, are the product of the internalisation of tools from the social environment. Just as tools were central to the development of humans as a species and the development of human society, so mental tools are central to the development of individual cognition. (pugh, 2017) Meditation is the key in his approach to understanding how human mental functioning is tied to cultural, institutional and historical settings since these shape and provide the cultural tools that are mastered by individuals to form this functioning.
