Learning theory of Vygotsky

          A few classes ago, we talked about learning theory of Vygotsky, the psychology of this study the activity of the subject and it does not respond to specific stimuli, but uses its transforming activity. To get to the modification of the subject uses stimuli mediating instruments. It is culture that provides the tools necessary to modify the environment, also to be culture consisting mainly of signs or symbols, they act as mediators of the actions.

       For Vygotsky, the social influences on learning rather than the attitudes and beliefs have a profound influence on how you think and what you think. The context is part of the development process and, as such, shape cognitive processes, the social context must be considered at several levels:
A. - The immediate interactive level, consisting of the (those) individuals who (is) the child interacts at the time.
2.-The structural level, constituted by the social structures that influence the child, such as family and school.
3. - The cultural and general social level, constituted by the society at large, such as language, number system


       The influence of context in the development of the child, for example, a child growing up in a rural environment where relationships are specified only to family ties will have a different development to that which is surrounded by cultural environments more conducive . The rural child develop faster your body control and knowledge of the field, the urban environment will have closer cultural and technological aspects.

       To Vygotsky development and personality formation occurs in the very process of teaching and learning.