Peer-reviewed article
VYGOTSKY SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Rosny Maidin ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This systematic review examines Vygotsky's sociocultural approach to early childhood education, which emphasizes how children learn and develop through their social and cultural environments. The authors analyzed 26 peer-reviewed articles from Scopus and Web of Science databases using PRISMA guidelines. They identified six main themes in Vygotsky's approach: social interaction, language, process, meaningful learning, knowledge construction, and artifacts. The review provides a deeper understanding of how sociocultural factors influence child development.
Key points
- Six main themes identified in Vygotsky's sociocultural approach: Social, Language, Process, Meaningful learning, Constructor-knowledge, and Artifacts
- Analysis of 26 systematically reviewed articles from Scopus and Web of Science databases
- Further analysis of the six themes produced five sub-themes
- Vygotsky's approach emphasizes teaching-learning and student development through sociocultural environment
- The study used PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) methodology
Limitations
This is a literature review that synthesizes existing research rather than presenting original empirical data or intervention outcomes. The document does not provide specific evidence of effectiveness, comparative outcomes, or details about the sub-themes identified.
Abstract
This systematic review article focuses on Vygotsky’s Sociocultural approach in the context of early childhood education which focuses on the teaching of learning and development that can be achieved through the sociocultural environment of students. This article is built by conducting previous studies or literature highlights to obtain information related to Vygotsky's sociocultural approach which refers to aspects of teaching-learning and student development. Meanwhile, this article reporting method uses optional reporting items for systematic study and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) or Systematic Literature Review (SLR) article adapted for current research review while using two main databases namely Scopus and Web of Science. Thus, this search effort has resulted in a total of 26 articles that have been systematically censored and analyzed and then the survey successfully formulated the six main themes contained in Vygotsky's sociocultural approach namely, Social theme, Language theme, Process theme, Meaningful learning theme, Constructor theme- knowledge, and Artifacts. In total, further analysis of the six themes has resulted in five sub-themes. The findings of this study have delved deeper into sociocultural from Vygotsky’s perspective as a basis for child development.