Exploring Ethnopedagogy: Insights from Vygotsky’s Social Constructivist Theory and Bruner’s Folk Pedagogy

Abstract

Ethnopedagogy is the branch of pedagogical science that involves the local community's information, experience, and methodology. The purpose of the study is to conceptualize a framework for the adaptation of Ethnopedagogy in formal classroom settings. Vygotsky claimed that social activity is internalized to develop language and thinking processes to achieve higher psychological human consciousness. Furthermore, Bruner introduced folk pedagogy, which argues that previous practices of cultural experience form the basis of learning additional concepts. By using the conceptual analysis method, the researcher analyzes both the theory to extract an ethnopedagogical framework for real classroom situations.