Child’s cultural Development in the Concept of L. S. Vygotsky

Abstract

The text of the article presents and describes the views of the eminent psychologist L. S. Vygotsky on the child’s cultural development. Not only does it indicate the sources and determinants of cultural development, but also the stages of the child’s acquisition of the cultural development. In addition, the views signalled by L. S. Vygotsky’s research on the possibility of acquiring the child’s acquisition of cultural behaviour and cultural thinking from the point held by the child’s own abilities and the impact of his closest social environment.