Sociocultural+Approach

toc = Definition: = The view that social and cultural factors may be just as powerful as evolutionary and physiological factors in affecting behavior and mental processing and that these factors must be understood when interpreting the behavior of others, p. 11 Gen Psych Chapter 1 pp. 8-12

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=In the News:= Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Motivation It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts. Since that time significant advances have been made in sociocultural theory and research. Various sociocultural approaches to the understanding of learning (for example, sociocultural psychology, sociocultural discourse, cultural historical activity theory) have been developed and consolidated and new challenges are currently being addressed. [] Motivation - A sociocultural approach Traditionally theories of motivation emphasise individual processes and contextual factors in explaining motivation. In recent years there has been some theoretical writing about the social nature of motivation but there have been few attempts to develop an approach in which motivation is seen as fundamentally social in nature. In this talk Richard presents a Vygotskian sociocultural approach to motivation which he has developed with current and former research students. []

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