Lev Vygotsky

The above image was found on Google Images and I found it very helpful in my understanding of Vygotsky's theory about Education Pyschology. Vygotsky states that everything we learn in connected. This image shows the merging of the different aspects of one's life. Thought and lanaguage is very important to Vygotsky as he believes that without language thinking cannot happen. I agree with this statement because how we process information is done through language in our own minds. Thought and langauge is present in all other socialization including interaction with others as well as scaffolding.   --the pedagogical approach help students meet goals that they are not able to meet on their own. (support)
Cultural mediation is how society influences the individual. The example from class:
-If you are a young woman walking late at night, and a african american man in coming towards you, you generally move your purse to the opposite side that he is on.
This example is helpful because even though the woman may have not every been mugged by an African American or anyone for that matter it has been culturally influenced upon her to move her purse to the other side.
After combining all of these aspects of society and the individual I would say that Vygotsky's theory is the one that I agree the most with and find the most helpful and easiest to understand.