{"id":9421,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/zone_of_proximal_development_-zpd\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:50","slug":"zone_of_proximal_development_-zpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/zone_of_proximal_development_-zpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Zone of proximal development (ZPD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Vygotsky&#8217;s sociohistorical theory of development. the distance between a child&#8217;s actual developmental level as she performs a task independently and her potential level of development as she works with an adult or more accomplished peer. &nbsp;Vygotsky held that because children&#8217;s level of functioning is raised to new heights when working with others, their learning occurs in the &#8216;zone of proximal development&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"action_theory\">Action theory<\/a>, <a href=\"joint_attention\">Joint attention<\/a>, <a href=\"intentionality\">Intentionality<\/a>, <a href=\"internal_speech\">Internal speech<\/a>, <a href=\"internalization\">Internalization<\/a>, <a href=\"scaffolding\">Scaffolding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Vygotsky&#8217;s sociohistorical theory of development. the distance between a child&#8217;s actual developmental level as she performs a task independently and her potential level of development as she works with an adult or more accomplished peer. &nbsp;Vygotsky held that because children&#8217;s level of functioning is raised to new heights when working with others, their learning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/zone_of_proximal_development_-zpd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zone of proximal development (ZPD)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}