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Social Constructivism

  • Vgotsky - emphasized the role of society and culture exerted on human learning and development - thinking and learning are dependent on social interactions and reflection of cultural values.

  • From birth, an infant begins to interpret the world through others - as child matures, so does social interactions.

  • Social Constructivists emphasize the influence of social interactions and culture on developing knowledge, but they also see knowledge as something that is uniquely and personally constructed.

Situated Cognition

  • Focuses on physical, as well as human, resources in the environment.
    Concerned with the immediate context and process of knowledge rather than the product of knowledge.

  • Basis in Artificial Intelligence - Interest in human-machine interactions.

  • See collaboration and social learning in terms of shared problem solving which involves technology.

Social Cognition

  • It's not important what one person knows but rather what the collective social or cultural groups knows.

  • Interested in the process of knowing rather than outcome.
  • Not too concerned with technology.


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