Children, material culture and weaving

The Soviet psychologist and semiotician, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, pointed to the connections between cultural development and individual development (Vygotsky 1962, 1978). He suggested that as children grow, they acquire the use of tools and speech through social interaction, these cultural forms being themselves the product of historical development (Scribner 1985). The ideas of Vygotsky form the central core of a prominent theoretical strand of developmental psychology – the socio-historical approach (e.g. Rogoff and Wertsch 1984; Wertsch 1985).