What did the professor learn while visiting the preschool?

Abstract

While visiting a preschool I met Ludvik, a five-and-a-half-year-old boy. He is in the stage of early literacy; he cannot read or write, but he is exploring letters. This paper presented is a case study [1], and an aim is to show the relevance of the sociocultural learning theory [2] for the university professor as vessel of competence to be shared with his or her teacher training students. As a visitor in the preschool, I usually take part in the on-going activities aiming to learn more of the everyday-life there and children’s development especially when it comes to literacy. In this paper I give a presentation of what I learned and how my students may benefit from my encounter with Ludvik