“Rather than viewing knowledge as existing inside the heads of individual participants or in the external world, sociocultural theory views meaning as being negotiated at the intersection of individuals, culture, and activity” (p. 208).
Socioculturists believe that knowledge comes from interacting with ones surroundings. Talking to people, experiencing new things allows one to grow. There are also tools that can help facilitate growth. Their theory is compatible with Vygotsky’s theory, his theory is also based on social interaction. Vygotsky believed that human interaction was responsible for development unlike the other scientist who believed time is what allowed people to develop. He believed people needed to grow to a certain point to be able to understand things.
"...procedural facilitators offer semiotic tools that enable teachers to make visible the character of the particular text forms, the strategies and procedures that underlie the text’s construction and revision, and the discourse structures and language practices that permit writers to realize their writing goals”
Teachers using tools to help students grow as writers also fits into Vygotsky's theory because it is a sort of social interaction. The teacher is handing down a technique common to their society, such as MEAL, Main Idea, Example, Analysis, and Link; an acronym for writing good paragraphs. This is an example of how society determines what is 'good". MEAL is something I learned in High School and it continues to be passed down to other students.
This reading talks about apprenticeships, which is a social thing because the apprentice is learning from a master or someone way more skilled then they are.
To really break down this reading I am going to answer some basic questions and connect it back to the reading.
-What is an an apprenticeship?
Learning under somebody who is an expert.
-What does cognitive mean?
Following a process, structure, formulas.
-What would be a cognitive apprenticeship?
Learning from someone who uses structure and a process; how to do so effectively.
-What would be a social apprenticeship?
Learning socially from other people
-What would be a sociocognitive apprenticeship?
learning about different techniques through a social context from someone knowledgable.
The social culturalists believe that writing can be enhanced with tools such as venn diagrams, t-charts, basically anything that helps one write--pencil paper. The teacher is also a tool and what makes teaching a social interaction. The other students can also be a source of knowledge because of varying points of view. Connecting back to Vygotsky's theory talking to different people and doing new things is a way to develop.
Learning under somebody who is an expert.
-What does cognitive mean?
Following a process, structure, formulas.
-What would be a cognitive apprenticeship?
Learning from someone who uses structure and a process; how to do so effectively.
-What would be a social apprenticeship?
Learning socially from other people
-What would be a sociocognitive apprenticeship?
learning about different techniques through a social context from someone knowledgable.
The social culturalists believe that writing can be enhanced with tools such as venn diagrams, t-charts, basically anything that helps one write--pencil paper. The teacher is also a tool and what makes teaching a social interaction. The other students can also be a source of knowledge because of varying points of view. Connecting back to Vygotsky's theory talking to different people and doing new things is a way to develop.
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