Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, and sociocultural theory

Sociocultural critique of Piaget and Vygotsky

Piaget has su!ered a great deal of criticism that his theory of psychological development neglects the social nature of human development. Much of this criticism has come from researchers following a Vygotskian approach and comparing Piaget's approach unfavorably with that of Vygotsky. Smith (1995) refers us to Piaget's collected articles on sociology (Piaget, 1995) to argue convincingly that i...

Harre , Vygotsky , Bakhtin , Vico , Wittgenstein : Academic Discourses and Conversational

Now actually, I happen to agree with Harre's claims here wholeheartedly. As I shall argue, conversation is a kind of ultimate reality for us. We cannot turn it around to understand its nature in terms of any particular models, theories, rules, or conventions, for, unless we can discuss such entities conversationally, we have no way of justifying to each other that we are indeed applying them ar...

Wittgenstein and Indexing Theory

The paper considers indexing an activity which deals with linguistic entities. It rests on the assumption that a theory of indexing should be based on a philosophy of language, because indexing is concerned with the linguistic representation of meaning. The paper consists of four sections: It begins with some basic considerations on the nature of indexing and the requirements of a theory on thi...

Vygotsky as Precursor to Metacognitive Theory: II. Vygotsky as Metacognitivist

In this article it is demonstrated that topics discussed in contemporary metacognitive research are integral parts of Vygotsky's (1978, 1986) theory of cognitive development. This conclusion is reached through a discussion of Vygotsky's views of self-regulation, the relationship between self-awareness and self-regulation, and the relationship between awareness/regulation on the one hand and cog...

Nadia Behizadeh Sociocultural Theory