Vygotsky?s concepts

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Lev Vygotsky

In describing child development , Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky - a Russian psychologist - employed several concepts namely , mediation , zone of proximal development (ZPD , internalization , guided participation cultural mediation , scaffolding , and apprenticeship (Berger , 2004 . Like children , adults reflect such concepts when learning new or difficult ideas . To relate this idea to my own experiences , as I was learning how to drive , I fully replicated the aforementioned concepts because I initially found this undertaking difficult

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was initially introduced to a tool called the Model Town Theory Board (MTTB ) that acted as a mediator between me and the road . Vygotsky 's mediation concept was thus depicted when I used the MTTB to visualize real-life road situations . Afterwards , I went for a road test with my driving instructor whereby I merely observed his driving maneuvers . According to Vygotsky 's concept of apprenticeship , I was being apprenticed to driving . Guided participation played out when I rode alongside my instructor whereby the coach instructed and rectified me as I drove the car . After sometime , I had gained sufficient skills to enable me to drive with very minimal input from the instructor . As per Vygotsky 's theory , I had by this time internalized the knowledge required in driving . Afterwards , ZPD 's lower limit was exhibited during the first time I sat behind the wheel whereby I could start the car on my own based on the observations I had made as my father drove the...