Vygotsky And Mental Development

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Introduction
Vygotsky believes that schooling plays a more significant role in the mental development of a child. There are three main concepts which are important in mental development in children which are seen as the role of social factors on the child’s development, the importance of each psychological tool which effect the mental development as well as the importance and the differences of spontaneous and scientific knowledge which children are and have been taught as they grow.

Scientific and spontaneous concepts , their interaction and the zone of proximal development ( 70%)
Vygotsky classified schooling as scientific concepts which is information and knowledge which one should be taught at certain levels in order for them to gain knowledge which they won’t be able to learn with Spontaneous concepts. ( Crain, W. (1992) p211 ) states that Vygotsky believed that Scientific concepts are important for children so that they can increase their own knowledge which would later help them understand many Spontaneous concepts they will later or already have learnt. He also states that this type of learning or how he would put it as formal instruction has two main benefits which are firstly bringing consciousness to the child 's thinking and secondly through this type of learning the child gains awareness of the concepts they are learning and because of this they can put this information to use as well as be fully aware of the concepts. Spontaneous concepts are concepts which

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