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The Vygotsky Circle (also known as Vygotsky–Luria Circle [1] [2]) was an influential informal network of psychologists, educationalists, medical specialists, physiologists, and neuroscientists, associated with Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) and Alexander Luria (1902–1977), active in 1920-early 1940s in the Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad and Kharkiv).
Vygotsky, a psychologist and social constructivist, laid the foundation for the interactionists view of language acquisition.According to Vygotsky, social interaction plays an important role in the learning process and proposed the zone of proximal development (ZPD) where learners construct the new language through socially mediated interaction.
The neo-Piagetian theories aim to correct one or more of the following weaknesses in Piaget's theory: Piaget's developmental stage theory proposes that people develop through various stages of cognitive development, but his theory does not sufficiently explain why development from stage to stage occurs. [1]
Holistic education is a movement in education that seeks to engage all aspects of the learner, including mind, body, and spirit. [1] Its philosophy, which is also identified as holistic learning theory, [2] is based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to their local community, to the natural world, and to humanitarian values such as ...
Piaget moved from Switzerland to Paris after his graduation and he taught at the Grange-Aux-Belles Street School for Boys. The school was run by Alfred Binet, the developer of the Binet-Simon test (later revised by Lewis Terman to become the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales). Piaget assisted in the marking of Binet's intelligence tests.
Constructivism in education is rooted in epistemology, a theory of knowledge concerned with the logical categories of knowledge and its justification. [3] It acknowledges that learners bring prior knowledge and experiences shaped by their social and cultural environment and that learning is a process of students "constructing" knowledge based on their experiences.
Islam Syariat: Reproduksi Salafiyah Ideologis Di Indonesia. PT Mizan Pustaka, Bandung. ISBN 978-979-433-746-2. Nashir, Haedar (2013). Ibrah Kehidupan: Sosiologi Makna Untuk Pencerahan Diri. Suara Muhammadiyah, Yogyakarta. ISBN 978-602-9417-15-9. Nashir, Haedar (2013). Pendidikan Karakter dalam Perspektif Agama dan Kebudayaan. Multi Presindo ...
In 1929, he was the first biostatistician hired by the Mayo Clinic and established its coding system for deriving medical statistics. [citation needed] He was Chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics from 1935 through 1960, first as part of the Bureau of the Census and later under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, where it eventually became the National Center for Health ...