Learning to Learn: teacher research in the Zone of Proximal Development

AbstractKi Hadjar Dewantara laid the foundation of education in Indonesia through his thoughts related to the nature of children in 1913-1919. On the other hand Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) stated a theory that children are able to learn with the help of competent people. Both theories illustrate that the implementation of education will provide freedom and happiness for children in learning to learn by understanding children naturally and as they are. Research that has been done using ethnographic design aims to dissect and trace Ki Hadjar Dewantara's thoughts and Vygotsky's theory in the implementation of inclusive education. Data collection is done through documentation studies, guided group discussions, and questionnaires. The results of the analysis of the position of Vygotsky's theory in the implementation of inclusive education in the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development are focused on how children construct knowledge according to their culture and ways. The ZPD concept which focuses on cognitive theory emerged around 1993 which in Indonesia itself had been developed by Ki Hadjar Dewantara in 1913-1919 the emphasis was on teaching according to the nature of the child. Ki Hadjar's philosophy is heavily influenced by Maria Montessori's thoughts which emphasize the value of children's independent activities and the importance of children's growth as individuals. In 1952 Ki Hadjar Dewantara created a "system among" approach that put forward “Freedom of the Soul”. The system that supports the child's natural nature in order to develop inner and outer life according to his own nature. Knowledge and intelligence are only tools, the fruit is the maturity of the soul that can realize life and livelihood in an orderly, holy, and useful for others. The concepts of “Freedom of the Soul” and ZPD, are aligned in the cognitive view and efforts of children in obtaining the concept of knowledge in the implementation of education in the classroom. AbstrakKi Hadjar Dewantara meletakkan dasar pendidikan di Indonesia melalui pemikirannya terkait dengan sifat anak-anak pada tahun 1913-1919. Di sisi lain, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) menyatakan teori bahwa anak-anak dapat belajar dengan bantuan orang yang kompeten. Kedua teori tersebut menggambarkan bahwa implementasi pendidikan akan memberikan kebebasan dan kebahagiaan bagi anak dalam belajar belajar dengan memahami anak secara alami dan sebagaimana adanya. Penelitian yang telah dilakukan dengan menggunakan desain etnografi bertujuan untuk membedah dan melacak pemikiran Ki Hadjar Dewantara dan teori Vygotsky dalam implementasi pendidikan inklusif. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui studi dokumentasi, diskusi kelompok terpimpin, dan kuesioner. Hasil analisis posisi teori Vygotsky dalam penerapan pendidikan inklusif dalam konsep Zona Pengembangan Proksimal difokuskan pada bagaimana anak-anak membangun pengetahuan sesuai dengan budaya dan cara mereka. Konsep ZPD yang berfokus pada teori kognitif muncul sekitar tahun 1993 yang di Indonesia sendiri telah dikembangkan oleh Ki Hadjar Dewantara pada tahun 1913-1919 penekanannya adalah pada pengajaran sesuai dengan sifat anak. Filosofi Ki Hadjar sangat dipengaruhi oleh pemikiran Maria Montessori yang menekankan nilai kegiatan mandiri anak-anak dan pentingnya pertumbuhan anak sebagai individu. Pada tahun 1952 Ki Hadjar Dewantara menciptakan pendekatan "sistem di antara" yang mengedepankan "Kebebasan Jiwa". Sistem yang mendukung sifat alami anak untuk mengembangkan kehidupan dalam dan luar sesuai dengan sifatnya sendiri. Pengetahuan dan kecerdasan hanyalah alat, buah adalah kematangan jiwa yang bisa mewujudkan kehidupan dan mata pencaharian secara tertib, suci, dan bermanfaat bagi orang lain. Konsep "Kebebasan Jiwa" dan ZPD, diselaraskan dalam pandangan kognitif dan upaya anak-anak dalam memperoleh konsep pengetahuan dalam implementasi pendidikan di kelas.

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I Know What I Do Not Know: Toward the Reflective Elementary Classroom

Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology ◽

10.1891/1945-8959.17.3.260 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 260-277

Author(s):

Galina A. Zuckerman

Keyword(s):

Developmental Outcomes ◽

Zone Of Proximal Development ◽

First Grade ◽

Clinical Analysis ◽

Human Mind ◽

Proximal Development ◽

Learning To Learn ◽

Independent Components ◽

Psychological Tools ◽

New Situation

Mastering the ability for learning to learn is the most ambitious goal of modern educators. A distinction is made between two relatively independent components of this expertise: (a) the reflective component of the learning to learn ability that allows a person comprehend what knowledge and skills he or she lacks to act in the new situation; (b) the search component of the learning to learn ability that allows the learner to find the missing knowledge and appropriate it. The article deals with the reflective component of the ability to learn and the method to develop it within the El'konin–Davydov system of school education. This system has grown from the hypothesis that reflective thinking belongs to the zone of proximal development of children starting school. Within this system, psychological tools are developed for fostering those reflective potentials of the human mind that are left neglected or even suppressed under the school system prevailing today. Psychological and educational means of developing reflection in class are illustrated through the clinical analysis of dialogs on a math lesson in the first grade. The developmental outcomes of the El'konin–Davydov educational system are exemplified using the cases of tasks with missing data. By the diagnostical assessment of the forth graders, we have confirmed that when the content of education is radically changed, the reflective components of the ability to learn can be successfully developed as early as in the elementary school.

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PENGEMBANGAN BAHAN AJAR BAHASA INGGRIS DENGAN MEDIA AUDIO UNTUK SEKOLAH MENENGAH PERTAMA

Jurnal Kwangsan ◽

10.31800/jtp.kw.v5n1.p1--20 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Sugeng Susilo Adi

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

English Language ◽

Zone Of Proximal Development ◽

Communicative Language Teaching ◽

Proximal Development ◽

Teaching English ◽

Comprehensible Input ◽

Level I ◽

Audio Media

The composition of English language learning tools for middle schools has often not utilized the instrctional technology approach and only used approaches related to the educational discipline of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). English language learning materials in several middle schools in East Java also do not provide audio media-based activities for practice of listening skills. This article is the research results of the Borg & Gall research and development model which aimed to develop, validate, and test textual learning materials aided by audio recordings to develop the English-language competency of middle school students. The results of the development showed that audio media was proven to be e ectively capable as sca olds that play a role as learning aids. Audio media provides sound input that guides students to imitate the audio with accurate pronunciation. In addition, audio media input can also be comprehensible for students in accordance with the Input Hypothesis Theory of Krashen that states that those learning languages at “level i” should obtain comprehensible input at “level i + 1” or slightly higher than the current level, and this theory of Krashen is identical to the zone of proximal development (ZPD) theory of Vygotsky. This development also resulted in a learning design which applied the audio lingual communicative (ALC) strategy which is eclectic in its combination of two language learning strategies, which are the audio lingual method with communicative language teaching (CLT). The application of this method was appropriate with the Indonesian classroom context where the number of students in a classroom is on average 40 pupils or more. AbstrakPengembangan bahan ajar Bahasa Inggris untuk sekolah menengah pertama selama ini sering kali tidak menggunakan pendekatan teknologi pembelajaran dan hanya menggunakan pendekatan disiplin ilmu pendidikan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa asing atau teaching English as a foreign language/TEFL. Selain bahan ajar bahasa Inggris di beberapa sekolah menengah pertama di Jawa Timur tidak menyediakan bahan penyerta berupa media audio untuk latihan keterampilan menyimak (listening). Penelitian ini adalah penelitian pengembangan (R&D) model Borg & Gall yang bertujuan untuk mengembangan, memvalidasi, dan menguji bahan ajar tekstual berbantuan rekaman audio untuk meningkatkan kompetensi bahasa Inggris siswa sekolah menengah pertama. Hasil pengembangan ini menunjukkan bahwa media audio telah terbukti mampu secara efektif menjadi sca olds yang berperan sebagai bantuan belajar. Media audio menyediakan input suara yang memandu siswa menirukan audio dengan akurasi pelafalan yang tepat. Selain itu, input dari media audio dapat dipahami (comprehensible) bagi siswa, sesuai dengan Input Hyphothesis Theory Krashen yang menyatakan bahwa mereka yang belajar bahasa yang berada pada “tingkat i” seharusnya memperoleh comprehensible input pada “tingkat i + 1” atau sedikit lebih tinggi dari tingkat ia berada yang identik dengan teori zone of proximal development (ZPD) yang dikembangkan Vygotsky. Pengem- bangan ini juga menghasilkan desain pembelajaran yang menerapkan strategi audio lingual communicative (ALC) yang bersifat eklektik yang memadukan dua pendekatan pembelajaran bahasa, yaitu audio lingual method dengan communicative language teaching (CLT). Penerapan metode ini sesuai dengan konteks kelas Indonesia dengan jumlah siswa rata-rata 40 orang atau lebih dalam satu kelas. ia dengan jumlah siswa rata-rata 40 orang atau lebih dalam satu kelas.

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Domains of Socialization

The Oxford Handbook of Parenting and Moral Development ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190638696.013.3 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 72-90

Author(s):

Joan E. Grusec

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Zone Of Proximal Development ◽

Proximal Development ◽

Group Participation ◽

Guided Learning ◽

Positive Action ◽

Affect And Cognition ◽

And Control ◽

Value Learning ◽

Over Time

This chapter surveys how behavior, affect, and cognition with respect to parenting and moral development have been conceptualized over time. It moves to a discussion of domains of socialization; that is, different contexts in which socialization occurs and where different mechanisms operate. Domains include protection where the child is experiencing negative affect, reciprocity where there is an exchange of favors, group participation or learning through observing others and engaging with them in positive action, guided learning where values are taught in the child’s zone of proximal development, and control where values are learned through discipline and reward. Research using narratives of young adults about value-learning events suggests that inhibition of antisocial behavior is more likely learned in the control domain, and prosocial behavior more likely in the group participation domain. Internalization of values, measured by narrative meaningfulness, is most likely in the group participation domain.

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Transforming by Following Forces: Introducing Chinese Philosophy of SHI and SHUN SHI into Developmental and Educational Psychology

Culture & Psychology ◽

10.1177/1354067x211017302 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1354067X2110173

Author(s):

Aruna Wu ◽

Shuangshuang Xu ◽

Xiaowen Li

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

Educational Intervention ◽

Educational Psychology ◽

Chinese Philosophy ◽

Zone Of Proximal Development ◽

Proximal Development ◽

Dynamic System Theory ◽

Alternative Perspective ◽

Process Understanding ◽

Long Time

Educational intervention has been narrated for a long time as a battle between two agentive subjects, educators and students. In this article, we introduce two interrelating concepts of SHI (势 in Chinese) and SHUN SHI (顺势 in Chinese) from Chinese philosophy into psychology to provide an alternative perspective to understand students’ development and educational intervention. The concept of SHI sheds light on the propensity of open system’s becoming process toward the future underlying system’s present configuration derived from system’s historical interaction with its environment. SHUN SHI is to grasp the opportunity of SHI evolving into being prominent and to transform the system by alertly following its unfolding process. Understanding and applying SHI and SHUN SHI in the area of developmental and educational psychology is discussed and clarified based on a comparison with the dynamic system theory and zone of proximal development. An empirical research is also provided to respond to the method challenge posed by the two concepts.

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