Vygotsky and Piaget do agree on somethings such as them both believing and both saying “that young children are curious and actively involved in their own learning and the discovery and development of new understandings.” Vygotsky's work was very unknown to the west until it was published …show more content…
He was a prolific writer and he published six books on topics of psychology over a ten - year period of time. He was also said to believe that human development is a result from a dynamic interaction between the society. His insight was that all children need social interaction with adults and other children to move on to their own development. Lev vygotsky studied social and cultural factors in the making of human consciousness . Some of his best work was thinking and language. He was involved in a non religious jewish family. His father worked at a bank and during vygotskys schooling time he grew up in the city of Gomel in Belarus “ a small town in Russia.” Lev vygotsky suffered a deep crisis after going through a period of self criticism, he made more revisions of his theory. In, 1924 he made a presentation at the second All- Russian Psychoneurological congress in Leningrad. His presentation was so well received, that he was offered a position psychological institute of Moscow. He lived in the basement of the institute so he had the chance to read a lot of great quantity materials. Sadly, Lev Vygotsky caught tuberculosis from his little brother, which at the time he was caring for, and passed away in 1934, at the age of