Vygotsky from ZPD to ZCD in Moral Education: Reshaping Western Theory and Practices in Local Context

Autor/inn/en	Balakrishnan, Vishalache; Claiborne, Lise Bird
Titel	Vygotsky from ZPD to ZCD in Moral Education: Reshaping Western Theory and Practices in Local Context
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 41 (2012) 2, S. 225-243Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2012.678056
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Ethical Instruction; Action Research; Moral Issues; Foreign Countries; Moral Values; Moral Development; Sociocultural Patterns; Cultural Pluralism; Religious Cultural Groups; Christianity; Confucianism; Case Studies; Religion; Cooperation; Cultural Context; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Projektforschung; Moraltheorie; Ausland; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Moralische Entwicklung; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Kulturpluralismus; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Christentum; Konfuzianismus; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	This article explores Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) in the Malaysian context to support local reform of the Moral Education (ME) classroom. Small groups of students in three different types of school were involved in a participant action research (PAR) project. Such classrooms in Malaysia bring together students from various ethnicities aligned with Hindu, Confucian and Christian beliefs and understandings. Using the Malaysian multicultural ME classroom as a case study, we offer some examples of group conversations around moral dilemmas that illustrate ways that collaborative processes beyond the individual might expand an individual student's ZPD and the consensual as well as divergent views of each group as a whole. This suggests possibilities for an extension of the ZPD into a zone of collaborative development (ZCD). (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10