Journal V: Levi’s the Cognitive of Your Son
"What a child can do in cooperation today, tomorrow he/she will be able to do alone."
The child, according to Lev Vygotsky, develops and maximizes their intellectual capacity through social influences, especially affected by the surrounding guidance of the adults. In other words, the development is not stimulated solely through the child's resolve, but how they interact to adapt to the culture and advance the cognitive. For an instance, there is a certain experience which Kael has gone through back on his childhood. Their neighbor who is selling "sweet merienda: banana cue" hired them alongside with his friends to peddle these foods and they will receive an amount of 20 PHP for long hours of labor. Until, Kael's father discovered this and told him that it was illegal and a child labor. From that, the act of peddling is perhaps not appropriate for a child, in accordance with the culture; however, in positive insights, it hones the communication ability over time. Thus, the academic environments should be designed to stress the substance of interaction between the children and instructions of "all-knowings" in terms of learning.
Furthermore, these "all-knowing" people are described as the More Knowledgeable Other (MKO). It refers to someone with a respected capacity of intellect and broad comprehension to the reality. These are the adults, wherein, guides the youth towards progressive advancement. It could be the parents, they are the foundation of learning that starts from the home, itself. Nevertheless, in personal reflection, the old-school culture are thoroughly instilled in this environment such as homophobia, kids as retirement benefit, and over comparison of 19th. century lifestyle with present era. Moreover, in a certain stage, the teachers will enlighten the perspective and behaviors of these children to satisfy the sociocultural norms; they are also ought to construct competent and uplifting domain for the students. Further, the friends or peers, are the "go-to" of the majority, they share peculiar bonds where judgments are more sympathetic due to its restriction-free characteristic compared to the relation to the first two influential people. Frankly, Kael perceives himself as genuine pal, he extends assistance for his "brothers" to the extent of the limit. In their group, he is the therapist, the advisor. However, its disadvantage is, he shall have a strong personality 24/7. For him, if he has fallen, if he reached his downfall, he will lose his worth, and that is something he will never let to transpire. An African proverb entails "It takes a village to raise a child", and is indeed a truth. The surrounding—the circles of people around the youth builds their moral, character, and wisdom. These people are with them all the time to have someone to console and to have someone to support.
Nonetheless, there are only specific stage or area which the child seeks to help to develop and define the skills into higher mental function. Based on the proximal development, the first stage (assisted performance) is simply the start in order to prosper. And along the way, the child begins to strive despite the mistakes to attain mastery and gradually lose it in a process. Regardless the inevitable endpoint of the cognitive development where the proficiency of the person will diminish, the social influence should still foster the child's cognitive development to be able to make crucial decisions important to foreseen careers.
Nevertheless, the child is required to develop three forms of language to get into intellectual discourse and attain the capability to interact in pursuit of knowledge. On the other hand, two out of three is the most relevant form of language: the first one is the (a) private speech, this utilized to address the sense of self for the purpose of regulating the stability of emotional and mental being. Then, the (b) inner speech or Kael may describe as the "Language of Gods" in terms of millenials as it allows the thought to materialize through the behavior of the person with the presence of higher mental functions to showcase cultural and intellectual competency to the social surroundings. These elements are expected to exhibit critical roles in cognitive development by the reason of the language itself is a tool of intellectual adaptation and the main component to transmit the essential concept of influences.
To let the child chase the other end as the Polaris as his guide—to let him discover where he belongs, is perhaps the perplexing manner to endure towards the definite drizzle of philosophy and literacy, but the abundance in self-worth will definitely direct oneself to a prosperous function of well-being in the society.
