Three key elements in Vygotski's work: social situation of development, zone of proximal development and interaction between learning and development. Their specificity at school age seen through a case study and a group study.

Abstract

This work is a practical-theoretic research about the existing relationship between teaching and psychological development, based on the work of L.S. Vygotski, whose remarkable produce gains more strenght and adepts to Occidental Psychology every passing day. The investigation uses as a basis the study made of a subject at school age and the study of a group both of which served to analyze the specific definitions adopted during this period of life by the fundamental elements in Vygotski ́s conception: the social situation development, the on-coming development zone and Vygostki ́s own view about the existing relationship between teaching and development. For the making of this work diverse technics were used, such as observation, interview, the tasks proposed by J. Piaget to study intellectual development and the moral sphere, as well as group dynamics namely sociodrama and psychodrama.