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PHQP_0030 More Knowledgeable Others

PHQP_0030 More Knowledgeable Others

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 In episode PHQP_0030 More Knowledgeable Others, Jeff talks about More Knowledgeable Others and misses his grandma. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0030 More Knowledgeable Others Episode Notes Vygotsky’s More Knowledgeable Other Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory Vygotsky’s Zone Of Proximal Development The ART Of Effective Direct Instruction The ART Of Effective Direct Instruction Handout Play And Its Role In The Mental Development Of The Child Near Peer Self-Study--Understanding The More Knowledgeable Other The More Knowledgeable Others Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play. On with the show. So I was baking bread the other day, which I do once a month or so, and I had a grandma recipe realization. Every summer when we're on family vacation, we would go to my grandparents' farm in north, north central North Dakota, um, 50 miles or so from the Canadian border. And one of the things that happened every trip besides going fishing with my grandpa is we would, I would bake bread with my grandma and something she did like maybe once a week, once every week and a half or two weeks through decades and decades of being a farm wife. And I love the experience and I loved being at her elbow. And I had this realization that every time we baked bread together, she had this recipe card out and we were going through the card step by steps by step. And I realized that she didn't need that card, that card. I've baked bread enough to know that you quickly memorize your bread baking recipe. There's not a lot of ingredients. Um, she had that card out for me. It was a teachable moment for me. It was a chance to learn to follow instructions for me. I don't, I don't know if she intended it that way, but to, to some degree I'm sure she did because there's no way she needed to dig that card out every time she baked bread because she'd been doing it for 40 years by the time I was at her elbow helping. Um, and that got me reminiscing and feeling sad about not having her in my life anymore. She was born in the late 19 teens and grew up in the twenties and, uh, lived through the depression and World War II and was a wonderful, caring, loving woman. And that's not what this episode is about. So, um, love you grandma to grandma if she happens to be listening from any place. But what we're talking about is the more knowledgeable other, which she was an example of. A more knowledgeable other. Um, well first, let's look at Lev. Lev Vygotsky is the dude who came up with this concept. He was born in 1896, lived, uh, 37 years, died in 1934 of tuberculosis. He was born in Belarus, which was then a part of Soviet Union. And for decades after his death, his work was suppressed by the Soviets. Um, not just suppressed from the rest of the world, but suppressed within the Soviet Union. And then in the sixties, when relations with the West were starting to thaw, his, uh, his work was shared. And, and so we went decades without knowing some of the, the ideas this man had. And the more knowledgeable other and the zone of proximal development and other things that he worked on, uh, have daily impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of children around the world. And one of his ideas was the more knowledgeable other. And so short definition, a more knowledgeable other is anyone or anything with more expertise, skill, understanding, experience than the learner. And this can be kind of a wide range of, uh, of, of entities. It can be parents, which are probably the primary, more knowledgeable other in the lives of, of especially young children. It can be caregivers, excuse me, and teachers, peers, near peers, siblings, but beyond that books, videos, and even pets. I'll, I'll give you an example in a moment. Um, people in the communities, uh, relatives, uh, just about any, I mean, literally anybody who might have more knowledge or exp...
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