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Deconstruction in the Zone of Proximal Development
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Our views of how children develop and learn have undergone many changes. Of these changes, the one most associated with the name of Lev Semenovitch Vygotsky is that of the social construction of the individual. Vygotsky argued that development is social because it involves more than the endowment of the child and more than the child can effect on her own. Development requires another person and is thus literally social. The child’s progress toward adulthood is effected through means that are shared by the collective group. Thus development is social in both aspects basic to its definition: involving another person and involving society as a whole.
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“Referencing Litowitz (1993), they illustrate how academics can unconsciously conflate proof of learning with a learner becoming more like them: an assessment is judged to have value because it approximates the style (in language, in content, in tone) of the individual making the judgement rather than because of its intrinsic quality.”
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- Authors
- Litowitz, B. E.
- Corresponding author
- Litowitz, Bonnie E
- ORCID
- Litowitz, Bonnie E
- Venue
- Contexts for Learning
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York, NY
- Published
- 1993-11-04
- Pages
- 184-196
- OpenAlex
- W4388250338
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 1.78
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychology of Development and Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
- Keywords
- zone of proximal development, Vygotsky, social construction of knowledge, social development (developmental psychology), children's learning, cooperative learning, historical-cultural theory
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