learning in a socio-cultural perspective

The socio-cultural view of learning explains educational success and failure in a social context. You succeed or fail in educational institutions depending your cultural frame of reference. The focus of the socio-cultural view can be economic but there are other cultural issues to consider as well.

The sociocultural perspective contends that by tracing the influence of the social practices of both these local and larger communities, we will better understand how and what people learn. As said Vygotsky in order to understand the individual, we must first understand the social context in which the individual exists and examine the external social world in which that individual life has developed...

The importance of social and cultural influences upon learning cannot be underestimated. It is hard to separate the learning outcomes of an individual from their learning environment. Some theorists consider the learner as inseparable from their learning environment – particularly in the social and cultural context in which learning occurs. These ideas make learning online an interesting new model of learning environment. 

There might be statistical evidence that supports the socio-cultural view of learning – that is, students from private schools in wealthy suburbs are more likely to get better grades on their study than students in poorer areas. But just because statistics show a relationship between class background and educational success that does not mean that an individual’s future is determined by those statistics.