The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving
The present study, located in the socio-cultural tradition of research in developmental psychology, uses experimental tasks, adapted from the groundbreaking Lurian study (Luria, 1979, 1976) to investigate South African children’s acquisition and development of thinking and concepts – involving class...
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| description | The present study, located in the socio-cultural tradition of research in developmental psychology, uses experimental tasks, adapted from the groundbreaking Lurian study (Luria, 1979, 1976) to investigate South African children’s acquisition and development of thinking and concepts – involving classification and generalisation, and how these concepts are linked to the specific cultural context of their manifestation.The paper provides new ways of understanding possible causes of contemporary problems that children encounter during classroom learning by examining the developmental roots of the specific modes of thinking and concept development in their concrete learning and developmental settings and specific tradition of learning within their schooling. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f816ae6dfe894b1a8a86eda72558c7f52022-12-21T23:35:24ZengAOSISSouth African Journal of Childhood Education2223-76742223-76822011-12-0111e1e1610.4102/sajce.v1i1.274146The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solvingAzwihangwisi Muthivhi0School of Education University of Cape TownThe present study, located in the socio-cultural tradition of research in developmental psychology, uses experimental tasks, adapted from the groundbreaking Lurian study (Luria, 1979, 1976) to investigate South African children’s acquisition and development of thinking and concepts – involving classification and generalisation, and how these concepts are linked to the specific cultural context of their manifestation.The paper provides new ways of understanding possible causes of contemporary problems that children encounter during classroom learning by examining the developmental roots of the specific modes of thinking and concept development in their concrete learning and developmental settings and specific tradition of learning within their schooling.https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/274concrete conceptsclassificationVendaVygotsky |
| spellingShingle | Azwihangwisi Muthivhi The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving South African Journal of Childhood Education concrete concepts classification Venda Vygotsky |
| title | The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving |
| title_full | The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving |
| title_fullStr | The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving |
| title_full_unstemmed | The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving |
| title_short | The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving |
| title_sort | cultural context of development language as a means for thinking and problem solving |
| topic | concrete concepts classification Venda Vygotsky |
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