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In other words, I accompany my participants into and around their ZPD (even though Vygotsky is just a memory from the distant past, thanks for reminding me, I need to read up here too).
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This is the concept most closely identified with the work of the Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, but also, arguably, the concept of his that has been subject to the greatest number of interpretations.
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Carol Jago, former middle and high school teacher; president of NCTE; director, California Reading and Literature Project, and a whole bunch of other impressive titles, writes that we should be teaching what Lev Vygotsky calls the zone …
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Carol Jago, former middle and high school teacher; president of NCTE; director, California Reading and Literature Project, and a whole bunch of other impressive titles, writes that we should be teaching what Lev Vygotsky calls the zone …
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Given the set of circumstances Vygotsky proceeded to ask, “Is the mental development of these two children the same?”
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Teaching is optimally effective, the theory goes, when it “awakens and rouses into life those functions which are in the stage of maturing, which lie in the zone of proximal development” (Vygotsky, 1934, quoted in Wertsch 1985, p. 71).
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As Vygotsky said: “Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them” (1978, p. 88).
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This is the concept most closely identified with the work of the Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, but also, arguably, the concept of his that has been subject to the greatest number of interpretations.
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Your point about testing is very pertinent, not least because Vygotsky himself formulated the concept of the ZPD out of a concern for the fact that tests that assessed development retrospectively (what has the child learned?) are not reliable tests of potential development (what will the child be able to do next?).
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Teaching is optimally effective, the theory goes, when it “awakens and rouses into life those functions which are in the stage of maturing, which lie in the zone of proximal development” (Vygotsky, 1934, quoted in Wertsch 1985, p. 71).
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