THE ADULT’S AND CHILD’S ROLE AS DEVELOPMENTAL PARTNERS IN VYGOTSKY

Authors

  • Eulina da Rocha Lordelo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.38574

Keywords:

Vygostsky, adult-child interaction, child-child interaction, developmental partnerships.

Abstract

This paper discusses the role of the adult and the child as developmental partners, under the Vygotskian view and the empirical studies that deal with adult-child and childchild
partnerships and their effects on development. The paper presents some results from other works that identified a privileged role of the adult on child development, and also from
studies that point to the high emotional priority of the other child as a playing partner. It also presents results suggesting the positive effects of the contact between children on their cognitive and social perforrnance. The literature presents mutually exclusive positions that we argued against, based on studies that provide evidences of different, and perhaps complementary effects,
from both types of experience.

Author Biography

  • Eulina da Rocha Lordelo
    Doutora em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de Psicologia Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal da Bahia. Apoio Capes.

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1998-12-19

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