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| | Lecture Notes – Lev Vygotsky |
 | | In spite of his short career, Lev Vygotsky’s theory started nothing short of a revolution in psychology, education, and in child development—once his work was translated in to English, that is. Unfortunately, that didn’t begin to happen until the 70s, with |
 | | Vygotsky (1978) believed that "what the child [or learner] is able to do in collaboration today, he will be able to do independently tomorrow." Tharp and Gallimore (1988) described the ZPD as a four-stage process: |
 | | This, of course, will explain why children in one context may have difficulty with a cognitive task while children in a different context may not (this includes but is not exclusive to variations in cultural context—sometimes experience with different materials or comfort with a certain situation may be the determining factor). |
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