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Everybody has a different way of learning. There are so many different factors that play crucial parts in our learning that we don’t tend to think about. I would never think about how society impacts my learning.

I can walk into a room and think I am the smartest person in the room or the More Knowledgeable Other but in most cases I am not. We all have this zone around us of what we are capable of learning on our own and what we are not capable of learning on our own. For example I would never be able to teach myself how to make homemade pasta because it is out of my zone of proximal development but if I am with a more knowledgeable other I would be able to. Sociocultural theory encompasses that we can only learn by interacting with others. No one person has all the answers and if they do they got those answers from someone else. Vygotsky, the creator of sociocultural theory, believed that cultural differences had dramatic effects on children's learning and that we learn through experience. Every student that comes to our classroom has a vast variety of learning or experiences as the foundation of their learning. Our job as teachers is to figure out what that knowledge or zone of proximal development is for each student and how they can help each other. Everyone is a more knowledgeable other in some shape or form. We as teachers just have to find the correct grouping for them to learn. That is why in classrooms we tend to switch seats a lot and work with many different partners throughout the day. Every student has something to bring to the table. As Vygotsky has said, “The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.”

However learning is very situational. Are you being forced to do something you are uncomfortable with? Are you with a group you can be yourself with? What kind of language are you supposed to be using? All of these factors shape our learning. This refers to the situative perspective of learning.Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom it happens in social settings too. This is similar to the thoughts of Vygotsky’s theory however there is explicit learning going on during these times. For example I would have never learned how to implement different styles of teaching if I wasn’t in the student teaching situation.

Anyways no one person learns the same. There are many different things that play a big role in learning. Sure we have names for them but we can never truly know which one perfectly describes our own learning.

DMU Timestamp: July 03, 2025 13:31





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