Lev Vygotsky has set up the prime building blocks for what we know today as Social Development Theory. His theory mainly revolves around our interaction with the social world. He agreed with Piaget's cognitive development theory but with a social cultural aspect thrown in. He states that play encourages a child to discover self-regulation along with communication and skill building. Which are things nessicary to engage in social interaction.
He also speaks about the '"More Knowledgeable Other" which is a case where, between two people, there will be one person with more knowledge on a specific subject than the other. Which in most cases seems to be the parent, teacher, or peer. However, in some cases there is a chance of the younger one being more informed on a specific subject. Such as when there's a new band on the scene or a new style going around. Who is more likely to be on top of things, the parent or the child? The child would be in almost all cases.
The last thing stated in Vygotsky's study was the zone of proximal development, or also known as ZPD for short. ZPD is basically the idea that if your older, you've experienced more, thus you should know better then others who have'nt went through that before. Kinda like in highschool. Where the seniors know what they're doing cause they're older and have already went through the situations before. Where as being a freshman, it is all new to them and they are completley clueless. Which is why if a freshman does something wrong, they may be less likely to get punished. Where as if a senoir were to do the exact same thing they would get the required punishment because they already should know the rules. Thus why the ZPD is mostly learned by the younger generation looking up to the older one. Because they have a larger Zone of promital development.
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