Vygotsky`s disscussion of the development of scientific concepts can only be acquired as a result of delibrate and systematic instruction in an educational activity setting. Its development is by focusing on the reciprocal relationships between teachi...
Vygotsky`s disscussion of the development of scientific concepts can only be acquired as a result of delibrate and systematic instruction in an educational activity setting. Its development is by focusing on the reciprocal relationships between teaching and learning, the zone of proximal development(Z{D). From this it follows that the reciprocal teaching-learning studied as a more effective method theoretically to develop the geographical concepts of the students. First of all, The everyday concepts are spontaneously developed in a dialectical relation to the geographical concepts, which are mediated through the teaching and learning. There is a double move in the teaching and learning. Thus teacher must guide instruction on the basis of reciprocal teaching-learning. The everyday concepts development depends upon systemically organized geographical concepts of a high degree of generality, so the geographical concepts must be systemized as a knowlege structure. For this I shall propose a systematic frame such as superordinate theme concepts-basic element concepts-subordinate element concepts-concrete facts based on the relation of generality of concepts. A student is individual, its individualities have a ZPD as the sensitive zone of learning. To work with the ZPD in classroom teaching implies that the teacher is aware of the ZPD of student and must be use as a tool to plan for qualitative changes. The concepts development of students is achieved through the interactions with others in the their own ZPD. Therefore they can maximize the interaction through instructional conversation in the environment of peer collaborative interaction, and participate in cognitive structure reconstructing more actively. Consequentiy, it is important to constructs fo activity setting fo rthe interaction. Although the recipocal teaching-learning is directly related to the concepts development process, we can explain it properly only when the study on the geographical concepts development is being performed empirically.