Vygotsky Activity

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Vygotsky Activity

• Group Activity

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Procedure
Sort the following words into whatever categories
make sense and provide a label or rationale for
each category. males, females, figs, kangaroo,
meat, dogs, honey, bees, the moon, cigarettes,
water, sun, spear, wine, wind, fish, mud, fire,
birds, rainbow
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Compare
Compare your categories with the following
created by Dyirbal aborigines in Australia
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Dyirbal Categories
Bayi males, kangaroo, the moon, rainbow, fish,
spear Balan females, dogs, birds, fire, water,
sun Balam figs, honey, wine, cigarettes Bala
meat, bees, wind, mud
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Your Categories
Why did you come up with the categories you did?
Where did these come from?
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Internalization
Any higher mental function necessarily goes
through an external stage in its development
because it is initially a social function. Lev
Vygotsky