Post by cherise on Oct 23, 2017 18:12:42 GMT
Individualist stage models as Moghaddem says are popular Western approach. This is a dominant approach of behaviourist who study behaviour, particularly behaviour of individuals while employing Piaget stage models. These models of behaviour are viewed by psychologists as a pre-set hierarchy comprising of stages of development that are biologically predetermined.
Contrastingly Vygotsky views development as a consequence of not biology but environment. According to Vygotsky developmental stages of children are not preset and children can perform above their developmental stage through interacting with their environment, as they do in collaborative play where the child imitates "ideal forms". For example, a child may play house collaboratively with other peers who imitate through imagining the roles of mom, dad, sister, brother and other relatives. In reality the child is demonstrating that they are, according to Vygotsky thinking above their developmental level. That is, although the child is still six or seven , they behave in a manner of the mental age of "mom" who is years older.
In this way Behaviourist approach and Vygotsky's approach to child development have a stark contrast. The former employing Piaget models of development (biology) and the latter, accrediting such to environment and "ideal forms" children imitate collaboratively with peers through an "imaginary social world" (M,157)
Moghaddem,F. M. (2005). Great ideas in Psychology: A Cultural and Historical Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld Publication).
Contrastingly Vygotsky views development as a consequence of not biology but environment. According to Vygotsky developmental stages of children are not preset and children can perform above their developmental stage through interacting with their environment, as they do in collaborative play where the child imitates "ideal forms". For example, a child may play house collaboratively with other peers who imitate through imagining the roles of mom, dad, sister, brother and other relatives. In reality the child is demonstrating that they are, according to Vygotsky thinking above their developmental level. That is, although the child is still six or seven , they behave in a manner of the mental age of "mom" who is years older.
In this way Behaviourist approach and Vygotsky's approach to child development have a stark contrast. The former employing Piaget models of development (biology) and the latter, accrediting such to environment and "ideal forms" children imitate collaboratively with peers through an "imaginary social world" (M,157)
Moghaddem,F. M. (2005). Great ideas in Psychology: A Cultural and Historical Introduction. Oxford: Oneworld Publication).