Lev Vygotsky has totally changed our understanding of how we learn and grow through his pioneering educational philosophy. The cognitive abilities of people are shaped by socializing, language, and ...

He died young, but Russian theorist Vygotsky helped to inform practice in many ways, says Linda Pound Lev Vygotsky was a Russian Jew, born in 1896 – the same year as Jean Piaget. Unlike Piaget, who ...

The idea of the ZPD came from a Russian psychologist named Lev Vygotsky in the early 1900s. Vygotsky believed that every person has two stages of skill development: a level they can achieve by ...