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    studies, we have explored various theories of children and how they learn and synthesize information. I am glad that the educational process has undergone major transformations right from Leave it Beaver teaching approach to more advanced approaches. Indeed education has made significant milestone from the 1950's conventional teaching approach. From Gardener's Multiple of Intelligence to the Montessori style of instruction. Though all these principles and theories are applicable, the one that is

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    Sociocultural is defined as relating to, or involving a combination of social (relating to human society) and cultural (taste in art and manners that are favored by a social group) factors.” (Socialcultural , 2010) You might ask why we are defining these words. It gives a better understanding of Vygotsky beliefs “that children seek out adults for interaction, beginning at birth, and that development occurs through these interactions.” (Morrison, 2009 sec 14.6) I agree that his theory is the best

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    Sociocultural Theory: Perseus and Simba “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” This saying means parents raise their own children to be just like them, however sometimes it’s just in their jeans to be who they are and eventually share the same traits their parents have. While growing up we learn from what our parents teach us but sometimes other children have to learn by there own, but family dynamics helps with that. While sociocultural theory may account for the son of the empowerment of

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    left behind at a gas station and Edwin passes away. They eventually make it to the pageant - although the pageant itself does not quite go as planned. Throughout this analysis, I will be viewing the film Little Miss Sunshine through Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory and looking into examples of adult-child relationships, child capacities and self-regulation. As a child, the adults around you greatly influence you as you grow up. In lecture, we discussed how cognitive development is driven by collaborative

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    Psychologists use a wide range of ways to deal with, comprehend and clarify human behavior. The social/cultural point of view otherwise called sociocultural, is one method used to grasp why people act the way they do. This method looks to comprehend human behavior and identity improvement by inspecting the standards of the social gatherings and subgroups in which the individual is a part of. (Nevid, 2003) These principles are regularly unwritten rules that assist to direct a person’s activities.

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    component of biopsychosocial theory looks at social factors such as one’s culture, interactions with others, and one’s economic status (Newman & Newman, 2014). The theory is used in examining mental health disorders, social disorders and the general development of an

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    In the book, International Business: Theory and Practice, Verizon-MCI in its domestic environment, the United States, is placed in the cultural cluster with the Anglo countries. This cluster consists of Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa. The company’s cultural cluster, for its global environment, China, is with the Far Eastern countries. This cluster includes China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These cultural clusters approaches are based on

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    What I believe about children’s learning, is that family are first teachers, with a knowledge of their own, situated from their families and communities. Sociocultural theory maintains children’s learning is situated in the social and cultural contexts of their families and communities (Arthur et al. 2015, p. 37). Children learn in lots of different ways and in early childhood education the mantra is there is no right or wrong way for learning. How a child learns is completely individual, some children

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    half of the communication taking place is nonverbal, internet-based. That’s why if the internet disappeared today, there would be a significant loss in the social life, which is highly communication-dependent. Gerhard Lenski’s theorization about “sociocultural evolution” is defined as “"the process by which structural reorganization is affected through time, eventually producing a form or structure which is qualitatively different from the ancestral form (Blute, 2016).” Basically, slow change taking

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    performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama? Past and present studies on process drama have referred process drama to some learning theories. The first one, would be of Dewey’s experiential learning ( 1938) . Dewey believed that all learning should happen through experience. It is the key for the transmission of knowledge

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