The circumstances of everyday routine create opportunities for the culturally meaningful activities and sensitive interactions on which a child's development depends.
Children-with and without disabilities-acquire new competencies through dialogues with more expert partners, who are sensitive to what the child is ready to master and foster it in culturally meaningful activities.
A truly creative work is both original and sensible; its novelty is culturally meaningful and useful.
These sub-regions are more conceptual than culturally meaningful, and the demarcation of their limits is not rigid.
According to sociocultural theory, as adults-and more expert peers as well-help children participate in culturally meaningful activities, the communication between them becomes part of children's thinking.
14 The "zone," as I'll call it from now on, is the dynamic region in which new capacities form as children tackle culturally meaningful tasks with a mentor's assistance.
Students are encouraged to develop a personally and culturally meaningful body of work, and perform research in order to develop works that express their personal vision of the world.
But what we find most culturally meaningful is deeply rooted in the distant past.
"Recognize the artistic accomplishments of children, and honor their works in a historically and culturally meaningful context"
He maintains his sanity by writing culturally meaningful films such as Eatapus Rex and Catch Her in the Rear.