Individuals create understanding by linking new knowledge and information to previous experiences.
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Name the 2 constructivist theorists.
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
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What did Lev Vygotsky believe?
That children are active learners, adult interaction with children is significant because children learn from watching others.
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What was Vygotsky's development?
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).
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What is the ZPD?
How a child's cognition develops through adult interaction and the difference between children's current abilities and potential when given adult encouragement.
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What did Jerome Bruner believe?
That children could learn anything if the information was simplified and presented in an accessible way and that children learn best when they discover things for themselves.
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What is Bruner's spiral curriculum?
An effective way that children can learn something at a simplistic level and then cover it in more depth over time.
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What are the 6 pedagogical approaches and applications?
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