[Xmca-l] ZPD

[Wagner Luiz Schmit]

Hello,

What is the difference between Zone of proximal development (ZPD) and
Potential Level of Development (PLD)?

In thinking and speech (in the collected works v1 in English) Vygotsky
defines ZPD and in page 209. It seems to me that he writes about the PLD
also in page 211.

At page 209 PLD seems to be what children can do with the guidance of an
adult. And that ZDP is the exact same thing.

At page 211 PLD can be understood as something that can enter the ZPD, so
not the same as ZPD, so something that children can learn soon, but can not
do even with help now (ZPD) and surely not alone. For me this makes more
sense, since in this case the PLD would match the Social Situation of
Development (SSD - collected works v5 pg 198), and the ZPD would be what is
between the PLD and the Actual Level of Development (ALD). In other words
the ZPD is the dialectical movement towards the devir, the PLD/SSD.

But at the same time in Mind in society (page 86) the same text is edited
in a different way, stating that the PLD is what is written in page
209  from above, but, that the ZPD is what is between ALD and this PLD,
i.e., what is between what children can do with help and what they can do
alone. What exactly is this "between"?

Sorry if the answer seem to be obvious, but I am a bit lost here.

All the best,

Wagner Luiz Schmit
UNESP - Brazil
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