ABSTRACT
Psychological perspectives often bring with them a tendency to ignore the wider social context. Most educational psychology focuses at the level of the individual and how people make sense of and react to their environment. In reality of course, the educational system is part of society and this relationship can have a strong effect on what schooling can achieve. Also, as we have seen, theorists such as Vygotsky believe that the process of education is essentially the development of children’s knowledge and understanding of the social culture in which they live.
