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From this view, learning and development are therefore interlinked with the context within which they take place. It follows therefore that educators need to understand the social and or cultural context within which learners have grown and developed, how the learners themselves perceive themselves in relation to conceptualize the discourse community in which they exist (Mercer, 2004).Researchers on this perspective contend that it is communication, thinking, and learning are related processes which are shaped by culture (Alfred, 2001). They assert that the nature of human activity is that knowledge is shared and people jointly construct understandings of shared experiences. This means that according to the socio-cultural perspective knowledge itself is a social construct. The perspective is a constructivist approach (Vygotsky, 1986).
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