Lev Vygotsky

What Vygotsky believed...

• People gain knowledge through their interactions
• Knowledge is the product of cultural influences
• -------beliefs, customs, skills of a particular culture
• Guided interactions with people of more experience...
• ----leads to a better understanding of oneself (internalization) 

What Vygotsky believed cont...

• Vygotsky believed that we acquire knowledge..
• we are not born with it.
• Apprenticeship is the best way to foster learning
• ----through teachers, peers and parents 

"In play a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior, in play it is as though he were a head taller than himself” (Vygotsky, 1978)