This paper presents some issues regarding scientific education as well as collective and group activities, within the socio-historical approach in human development and the scientific teaching which is found in the work of L.S. Vigotski and A.N. Leontiev. Basically we will try to establish this relation considering the zone of proximal development proposal by Vigotski in which the author emphasizes the cooperation and imitation roles for new developing levels. Such process is subsided by the instruction having the educator as the mediation.
activity; group process; scientific education; socio-historical approach