The concept of writing according to the cultural-historical theory and literacy for children in the first Year of primary school

Abstract

Study the concept of writing which can be inferred by Vygotsky´s and Leontyev´s theories. The authors did not elaborate a finished concept of writing. However, Vygotsky´s experiments for the study of writing development, his conceptions about the higher psychological functions and signs systems and tools, as well as Leontyev´s Activity Theory, contribute to formulate a writing and literacy conception. Introduce the etnographics observations in a literacy class, in order to investigate the relationship between the five-year-old child and the writing. The research problem is the meaning of literacy from the earliest childhood, supported by Vygotsky (2000), and how it is working in a classroom.