Lev vygotsky biography ppt

Title: Lev Vygotsky


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Lev Vygotsky
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Lev Vygotsky Archive, Retrieved Online on June
22, 2004 from http//www.marxists.org/archive/Vyg
otsky/
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Biography

• Born in Russia in 1896
• Graduated from University of Moscow in 1917
• Lectured on psychology and taught literature
• Became interested in language and cognitive
  development
• Developed Social Development Theory
• Died of Tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 38

Lev Vygotsky Archive, Retrieved Online on June
22, 2004 from http//www.marxists.org/archive/Vyg
otsky/
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Social Development Theory

• Social interaction fundamental in the development
  of cognition
• Personal and social experience cannot be
  separated
• Example Pointing a finger
• Social and cultural institutions , technologies,
  and tools, are the driving force behind
  interpersonal interactions.

• A function in the cultural development of a child
  develops on two planes
• Socio-cultural plane
• Psychological plan