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81Make-believe play promotes both cognitive and social development.
Make-believe play is something that young children will do in their life. By definition make-believe play will always implies absence of things like food, objects, and imagery friends. A child will supply whatever missing elements cognitively that...
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80The Inside Story: Lives of Children Today
This is article 2 of 4 in a series of articles exploring the impact of television, computer games and video games on the development of children with some discussion of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as it applies to this topic. To accomplish this, articles two and four entitled "The Inside Story" take a closer look into the immediate environment of many children today based on popular research, an exploration that may be surprising to some.
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71The Inside Story Continued: Our Children's Environment Exposed
This is article 3 of 4 in a series of articles exploring the impact of television, computer games and video games on the development of children with some discussion of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as it applies to this topic. To accomplish this, articles two and four entitled "The Inside Story" take a closer look into the immediate environment of many children today based on popular research, an exploration that may be surprising to some.
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73Learning, Modeling, and Observing: An Introduction to Constructivist v. Behaviorist Models of Teaching
Constructivism encompasses a variety of concepts where experience, context, and prior knowledge become relevant to the learner. Learners construct new knowledge as they relate to prior knowledge based on their beliefs and understandings of the...
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68Vygotsky and High Scope
Vygotsky and High Scope While may have read and been told about Lev Vygotsky is a very important influence in High Scope, it still may surprise a number of people how strong that influence is....
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80Applying Vygotsky: Cognitive Development Turned Cognitive Delay
This is article 4 of 4 in a series of articles exploring the impact of television, computer games and video games on the development of children with some discussion of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as it applies to this topic. To accomplish this, articles two and four entitled "The Inside Story" take a closer look into the immediate environment of many children today based on popular research, an exploration that may be surprising to some.
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74Composition Theory and Writing to Learn - How Writing Enhances Cognitive Development in the Classroom
As an English teacher, it may appear that a bias is attached to my teaching philosophy: Well of course you want to promote writing! You love words like the rest of those language arts nuts! True, I may have...
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83The Impact of Television, Computer Games and Video Games on Children's Development: Vygosky's Sociocultural Theory
This is article 1 of 4 in a series of articles exploring the impact of television, computer games and video games on the development of children with some discussion of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as it applies to this topic. To accomplish this, articles two and four entitled "The Inside Story" take a closer look into the immediate environment of many children today based on popular research, an exploration that may be surprising to some.
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81Theories of Childhood, a book review (Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky)
At the time my daughter was born, I had already studied a book about infants and I was reading the one about toddlers. When I was done I stopped reading and moved on with other interests. Big mistake. As the years passed, I found myself puzzled...
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67How Should We Run Our Schools?
Two of the biggest names in education theory are Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. They are well known to psychology students everywhere for their theories on how children should be taught in schools. What's sad is that their theories are hardly used in...
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