Within the 'social turn' in mathematics education research, it is the work of Vygotsky, more than any other inspiration, that has provided many researchers with theoretical tools for interpreting the social origins of thinking and learning. In his short 38 years, Vygotsky became a pioneering ...
Conceptually, the zone of proximal development and scaffolding are employed to develop a theoretical framework to explain how sociocultural theory influences Chinese language teaching. This paper also emphasizes that Vygotsky's theory provides a valuable perspective in Chinese teaching, particularly as it ...
Another aspect of play that Vygotsky referred to was the development of social rules that develop, for example, when children play house and adopt the roles of different family members. Vygotsky cites an example of two sisters playing at being sisters. The rules of behavior between them that go...
Within the 'social turn' in mathematics education research, it is the work of Vygotsky, more than any other inspiration, that has provided many researchers with theoretical tools for interpreting the social origins of thinking and learning. In his short 38 years, Vygotsky became a pioneering psych...
In this philosophical-theoretical study of Lev Tolstoy’s pedagogical legacy of his Yasnaya Polyana school in the Russian Empire (1859–1862), I raised three major questions: (1) was Lev Tolstoy a democratic educator, and if so, why can one claim that, (2) if so, what kind of a democ...
Activity Theory—Lev Vygotsky, Aleksei Leont'ev, Yrj Engestrm This chapter is about a theoretical and methodological approach to studying and working with learning and development in its broadest sense, commonly known as Activity Theory. The roots of this theory stem from Lev Vygotsky's seminal ...