Contexto y aprendizajeel papel de la interacción en diferentes tipos de tareas

Résumé

This paper analyses the role of social and material context on learning. Context must be defined along two dimensions: the physical and the social-cultural environment. The main objective is to analyse the impact of interaction on the learning process; �grasping consciousness� in different kinds of tasks. The subjects were 96 Spanish children 5 to 8 years of age. They were assigned either to a control group or to one of several experimental groups. Each child was tested individually in a pre-test and a posttest design. Children in the experimental group participated in a training session and all sessions were tape-recorded. Results suggest different effects of interaction on the learning process depending on whether children interacted with the adult individually or with a peer. Finally, differences in the efficiency of instruction strategies used by the adult as a function of the type of task involved were observed