Literature is an object of art and of culture for which Vygotsky held a most particular love. But how does it participate in the cultural development of the child? We will first draw some thoughts from the very earliest works of Vygotsky. These works demonstrate that the question of art for...
At the heart of Vygotsky’s social constructivism is the “zone of proximal development,” which refers to the gap between what a learner can achieve independently and what they can achieve with guidance. He argued that social interaction and culture shape knowledge and that language plays a cruc...