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= **Who is** **Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky?** = __//**la**//____//**[]**//__

= **Piaget and Vygotsky** = = **How are they different?** = = **How are they the same?** = media type="custom" key="13548248" width="148" height="148" align="left"

= = = = = = = = = = = **Who is Jean Piaget?** = http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jean_Piaget





[|Orsha], [|Russian Empire] || [|Moscow], [|USSR] || [|Piaget's Biography] Piaget at the University of Michigan, c. 1968 || [|Neuchâtel], [|Switzerland] || [|Geneva], [|Switzerland] || =[|Vygotsky's Biography] = = = =Vygotsky's theory differs from that of Piaget in a number of important ways: = =**1**: **Vygotsky** places **more****emphasis on culture** affecting/shaping cognitive development - this contradicts Piaget's view of universal stages and content of development. (**Vygotsky** does not refer to stages in the way that Piaget does).= = = =**2**: **Vygotsky** places considerably **more emphasis on social factors** contributing to cognitive development (Piaget is criticised for underestimating this).= = = =**3**: **//Vygotsky//** //places more (and different)// **//emphasis on the role of language//** //in cognitive development (again Piaget is criticized for lack of emphasis on this).//=
 * ||||~ **Lev Vygotsky** ||
 * ~ Born || November 17, 1896
 * ~ Died || June 11, 1934 (aged 37)
 * ~ Nationality || Russian ||
 * ~ Fields || [|Psychology] ||
 * ~ [|Alma mater] || [|Moscow State University], [|Shaniavskii Open University] ||
 * ~ Notable students || [|Alexander Luria] ||
 * ~ Known for || [|Cultural-historical psychology], [|Zone of proximal development] ||
 * ~ Influences || [|Wilhelm von Humboldt], [|Alexander Potebnia], [|Alfred Adler], [|Jean Piaget], [|Wolfgang Köhler], [|Kurt Koffka], [|Kurt Lewin] ||
 * ~ Influenced || [|Vygotsky Circle] ||
 * ~ Spouse || Roza Noevna Vygodskaia (nee Smekhova) ||
 * ||||~ **Jean Rio Francais Piaget 1st** ||
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 * ~ Born || 9 August 1896
 * ~ Died || 16 September 1980 (aged 84)
 * ~ Fields || [|Developmental Psychology], [|Epistemology] ||
 * ~ Known for || [|Constructivism], [|Genetic epistemology], [|Theory of cognitive development], [|Object permanence], [|Egocentrism] ||
 * ~ Influences || [|Immanuel Kant], [|Henri Bergson], [|Pierre Janet], [|James Mark Baldwin][//[|citation needed]//] ||
 * ~ Influenced || [|Barbel Inhelder], [|Jerome Bruner], [|Lawrence Kohlberg], [|Howard Gardner], [|Thomas Kuhn], [|Seymour Papert], [|Umberto Eco][//[|citation needed]// ||  ||   ||

= Jean Piaget's theoretical [|research program] as consisting of four phases :=
 * 1) =the sociological model of development,=
 * 2) =the biological model of intellectual development,=
 * 3) =the elaboration of the logical model of intellectual development,=
 * 4) =the study of figurative thought.=

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