How People Learn (HPL) - My Learning Insights
- The big 'T' theory trying to explain how human learns and develop mainly polarizes the biological and the context in which the subject is subsumed. As a teacher I have seen both playing a crucial role and both failing to explain the exceptions. Myself, is one of them. I only went to kindergarten one week, but went to first grade of primary at the age of 4 accompanying my sister. Ms. Margot Chumpitaz was kind enough to accept and have me as a free student wandering about the classroom. I learnt to read and write without formal instruction but from everything I had access to in my sis' classroom: story books, the teacher explanations, students' chat and many others, I suppose. Context does influence development in the way Vigotsky explained (ZPD), but I also believe that my parents brought me up to be biologically ready for learning so Piaget may say I went from one domain to the other as expected. Although I had breakfast from 'vaso de leche', lunch from 'c...