What is the Green Apple School's socio-interactionist proposal?

The socio-interactionist pedagogical model, created by the psychologist Lev Vygotsky, provides individual and collective experiences that allow the construction of knowledge, personality and socialization in a spontaneous, pleasant, motivating and quality way. In it, individualities are treated in a special way; the skills and abilities developed and their difficulties result in overcoming strategies.

Learn more about the pedagogical proposal of the Green Apple School in this interview with the coordinator Mariana Cavalcanti:

What is the socio-interactionist proposal?

It is a proposal in which the individual plays the main role in the teaching-learning process, transforming their interaction with the environment and people into knowledge. In this way, what is learned makes perfect sense and produces knowledge interconnected with everyday life. In addition to leading to reflection and action in the world in which they are inserted.

Could you give us practical examples of activities developed for nursery, kindergarten and elementary education, which are based on this proposal?

In the nursery our babies are stimulated through collective work and motor coordination activities designed and applied for each baby individually. Respecting each baby's time and abilities. A practical example is feeding, in which each baby is stimulated in their own time so that they reach autonomy in this very important moment.

Early Childhood Education and Elementary School are phases of empirical discoveries related to theoretical concepts, even if at first children do not see it as systematic knowledge. Content such as the letters from their name or the mathematical learning of numbers in everyday contexts. Our students live these experiences through playfulness and, starting from these moments, build and accommodate this knowledge, using it when least expected in ordinary moments. An example of this is the Financial Education classes using our Vila, where our little ones learn by playing about the value of currency, how to use money and how to calculate change.

Was the school environment also thought based on the socio-interactionist proposal?

The school environment was all thought out, planned and implemented so that all activities had the necessary stimulus and space to take place. Our furniture respects and matches the age group and the skills that students need to develop. All rooms have a mirror, materials to develop motor coordination and autonomy, as proposed by the socio-interactionist approach.

What impact does the socio-interactionist proposal have on children?

The socio-interactionist proposal forms a child who is free to build their knowledge and who receives stimuli to develop and improve their innate skills. He is a child who is respected when he asks his questions wherever and whenever he wants and, for sure, he will be a safe, reflective adult, who will have peace of mind in times of problem solving and self-esteem.

Can parents contribute in any way to this proposal?

In the socio-interactionist proposal, parents are an integral part of the process and partners with the school. They contribute to the extent that they understand the proposal, support their children in activities, respect learning time and skills, and encourage reflection.

Schedule a visit to visit the Green Apple School and learn more about the socio-interactionist pedagogical proposal.

Interview by MOK Agency