Okebukola Vygotsky and Ausubel – the converging points Ausubel’s theory of advanced organizers is a cognitive instructional strategy used to promote the learning and retention of new information.

Lev Vygotsky was a Russian Jew, born in 1896 – the same year as Jean Piaget. Unlike Piaget, who lived into his eighties, Vygotsky died at the tragically young age of 37 from tuberculosis, which he had ...