This article presents a bibliographic review in order to deepen the reader's knowledge about relevance of concept Vygotsky's zone proximal development context proposals for creation social technology, and its importance meaningful learning, through education non-formal spaces. Collaborative learning enables construction knowledge, based on processes interaction. For analysis we used literature ...

Translated from the Russian text " Fazovaia struktura rechevogo akta i priroda planov, " Planyi i modeli budushchego v rechi (materiali k obsuzhdeniiu) [Plans and Models of The notion of the phase structure of the speech act—or to be more precise—the special structure of the " inner speech " stage in utterance production, belongs to L.S. Vygotsky. Vygotsky conceptualized the process of speech p...

perceptions of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory – from scarce knowledge of it, to seeing it as one among many accounts of social factors in child development, and eventually, to a wide acknowledgment that this theory provides a unique perspective on human development and implicates profound changes in many fields of psychology and education. As this approach is rapidly gaining in popularit...

Explanation pertaining to individuals’ cognitive development and learning approaches is a recurring theme in the areas of education and psychology. The work of Okagaki (e.g., Okagaki, 2001; Okagaki & Frensch, 1998), for example, has provided both theoretical and empirical insights into the structuring and situational positioning of individuals within a community (e.g., the school, the family). ...

This paper considers how independent and interdependent learning can be fostered through a process approach to the teaching of writing. It does so by presenting the theoretical rational which underlies a university academic skills programme. Drawing on reports of this programme which have been published elsewhere (e.g., Brine & Campbell, 2002), it is a case study illustrating how scaffolding ca...