Notes On Vygotsky's Pedagogic Psychology: Part II

(If you haven't read the first part, it's not OK.)

Effective teaching → cooperation + collaboration

Development of the scientific concept → spec. collaboration between learner and teacher that evokes maturation of higher-order mental functions

Continued interaction with the organized, hierarchical, systematic nature of the scientific concept → embedded in psyche → structuralizes immediate practical activity → provides access to recognition of structure in spontaneous concepts

Dev. of scientific concept: verbal def. → concrete definition → phenomenal def.

Weakness lies in insufficient saturation with concrete def.

Dev. of spontaneous concept: verbal def. → abstraction → generalization

Weakness lies in extra-sufficient with abstracts

Rel. between scientific & spontaneous → dependent on how they develop within that rel.

Verbalism vs. knowledge: instruction of concepts > instruction in concepts (instruction of intra-functional relationships > instruction of inter-functional relationships) → learning by thought (living knowledge) > learning by memory (verbal catechism)

Individual access to and control over acquired scientific concepts → awareness of conceptual form → fostering interaction between scientific reaction & spontaneous reaction

Second language acquisition: graduation from accessing knowledge of concrete instantiations to attainment of awareness of linguistic forms to enhanced conscious awareness

[caption id="attachment_998" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Language acquisition (this model of learning is applicable to the development of those skills required to solve numerical problems as well)"][/caption]

Pedagogic diversity (Davydov; Vygotsky): Pedagogic responsiveness catering to individual learner

Inculcation of ped. diversity → three-phase breakdown: logical (~ analysis of content), psychological (~ analysis of capabilities of learner), pedagogical (analysis of suitable techniques of instruction) (LPP)

Scientific concepts → mediators of thinking, problem solving → support of procedural knowledge

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