Vygotsky & cognitive growth through Social Interaction & Cultural Tools by Dennis S

dsteller2 — 2024-11-07 05:02:37 UTC

I wonder how exposure to cultural tools and artifacts begins to impact cognitive skills outside of language in early infancy.

dsteller2 — 2024-11-07 05:09:23 UTC

Keys! My toddler grabbed my keys the other day and waved them around. Before throwing them across the room, he explained that these were "daddy's keys" and that I needed them for "the red car" in order "to go to work" and "drive me to daycare."

I hadn't appreciated the associations and meanings he could extrapolate from an object when I was only two years old. The significance of the object, the links made to other parts of life, and the growth of the communication to express it were astounding. Now, when he sees other people's keys, he likely applies a specific meaning to the object.

Rice!

dsteller2 — 2024-11-09 23:42:51 UTC

Many languages have specific words for the various preparations of "rice" where in English we use terms like "cooked rice," mandarin has the word "fàn".

Rain

2024-11-11 22:18:45 UTC

My language has a crazy number of words to describe rainy weather. I don't feel that the country is much rainier than others, but maybe it used to be a thousand years ago? -Ieva

Multi-cultural influence?

2024-11-16 13:42:46 UTC

I understood that Vygotsky put importance on cultural influences and the role of language in learning and development. Do you have any ideas what were Vygotsky's thoughts on multi-cultural learning environments? For instance, how does it affect the development of children if they grow up in an international family or learn with peers with different backgrounds? - Yuri

Slang!

2024-11-20 05:26:58 UTC

I'm curious about how one word can mean something within different generations. This word was something that was culturally for me not a good word, but I'm noticing that it's now cool to be brat in a more recent generational multi-cultural context.