[Peace-discuss] Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 95, Issue 20

[Karen Medina]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:25 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> Usually it's first the scaffold, then the st r  e   t    c    h.

I always thought of Instructional scaffolding as coming from Vygotsky,
but really it was Bruner and Ross. -karen medina

"Bruner, and Ross’ (1976) idea of scaffolding also parallels
Vygotsky’s work. This concept has been further developed by Jesper
Hoffmeyer as 'semiotic scaffolding'. Though the term was never used by
Vygotsky, interactional support and the process by which adults
mediate a child’s attempts to take on new learning has come to be
termed “scaffolding.” Scaffolding represents the helpful interactions
between adult and child that enable the child to do something beyond
his or her independent efforts. A scaffold is a temporary framework
that is put up for support and access to meaning and taken away as
needed when the child secures control of success with a task." -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_scaffolding