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What Is Missing in the Metaphor of Scaffolding?

Published 4 November 1993
C. Addison Stone
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Abstract

Abstract In 1976, Wood, Bruner, and Ross (1976) introduced the term scaffolding in the context of an analysis of adult-child interaction. They used the term as a metaphor for the process by which an adult assists a child to carry out a task beyond the child’s capability as an individual agent.

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PsychologyEngineering