Foo May is assisting her three-year-old son, Alex, to build a tower out of Lego blocks. At first, Alex needs lots of help. However, as he becomes more confident, his mother steps back and allows him to build on his own. The distance between what Alex can do on his own and the potential level of development he might attain given help or assistance from his mother, refers to Vygotsky’s

Zone of proximal development

Explanation:

The zone of proximal development was proposed by Vygotsky. According to this term, this is the distance between the actual development of solving the problem and the development that take guidance and the help of others to solve the problem is called the zone of proximal development.

Vygotsky has a belief that when the child is near the development and a little assistance will work for children or a student as a booster. Thus here Foo May assisting her three-year-old son Alex to build the tower of the logo. Alex needs lots of help so that her mother steps back and tells do it own his own. Thus here it shows Alex is at the zone of proximal development level.  

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