South African Journal of Childhood Education 1(1):a274 The cultural context of development : language as a means for thinking and problem-solving
Type
E-Journal
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ISSN
2223-7682
Category
ECCE, Foundation
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Aosis OpenJournals, Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa
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[ private ]
Pages
16 p.
Subject
Early childhood education, Primary education, Thinking, Concrete concepts, Classification, Venda language, Vygotsky, South Africa
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Abstract
The present study, located in the socio-cultural tradition of research in developmental psychology, uses experimental tasks, adapted from the groundbreaking Lurian study (Luria, 1979, 1976) to investigate South African children’s acquisition and development of thinking and concepts – involving classification and generalisation, and how these concepts are linked to the specific cultural context of their manifestation.The paper provides new ways of understanding possible causes of contemporary problems that children encounter during classroom learning by examining the developmental roots of the specific modes of thinking and concept development in their concrete learning and developmental settings and specific tradition of learning within their schooling.
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