Vygotsky Believed That Children Build Their Knowledge Base and Skills

question 50

Multiple Choice

Vygotsky believed that children build their knowledge base and skills through social interaction, and that the best education creates the social contexts for learning. His theory is called the:

• A) Piagetian approach.
• B) social constructivist approach.
• C) transformational context approach.
• D) proximal scaffolding approach.

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