Vygotsky: "Early Childhood Education"

Hello, i am going to talk about main men of educational psychology, he is Lev Vygotsky.

Lev Vygotsky was born on 1896; he was a Russian psychologist and one of the most remarkable theoreticians of Developmental Psychology, founding the Historical Cultural Psychology. His fundamental idea was based on that human development can only be explained by terms of Social Interaction. Then, development consists on internalization of cultural instruments such as language which initially doesn’t belong to us, but to the human group we were born, broadcasting like this its cultural products through social interaction, receiving the “Other” a main role in Vygotsky’s theory. On his text “Development higher psychological processes” Vygotsky explains how children education should be; referring to the zone of proximal development as a key concept, reflecting a child’s potential on knowledge development and criticizing the standardized ways where knowledge measurement or children potential wasn’t stablished on future learning. So, Vygotsky’s greatest input was criticize the way learning was being carried, besides presenting a posture where a child’s potential isn’t measure in current knowledge terms, but in the child’s potential on learning higher knowledge.