Lev Vygotsky was born in Russia in 1896 to a middle class family. He graduated from Moscow University with a Degree in Law and a specialization in Literature in1917. Thereafter, Vgotsky taught Literature in a Secondary School, where became interested with psychology and educational theories, particularly the relationships of cognitive and language development to learning in children (Mooney, 2013). Through this, Vygotsky designed a sociocultural approach to cognitive…
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