Led by Lev Vygotsky Simulacrum
About this course
How the built environment shapes learning and development — the zone of proximal development applied to cities, cultural mediation through place, and what children learn from the streets they grow up in.
Part of Urbanisation & the Built Environment — one of five wicked problems examined from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Led by Lev Vygotsky Simulacrum
The question
The ZPD restated: learning occurs in the gap between independent and assisted capability · scaffolding as a pedagogical concept (Wood, Bruner, Ross) · how environments scaffold development without human instruction · the playground as a ZPD: graduated challenge, risk assessment, social negotiation ·
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in the zone of proximal development and environmental scaffolding.
Sub-units
Led by Lev Vygotsky Simulacrum
The question
The city as a repository of cultural memory · how monuments, street names, building styles, and spatial arrangements encode and transmit cultural knowledge · what is lost when cities are demolished and rebuilt · the relationship between place and identity · how walking through a city is a form of cu
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in cultural mediation, memory, and the city as teacher.
Sub-units