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Title: Re-Conceptualizing 'Scaffolding' and the Zone of Proximal Development in the Context of Symmetrical Collaborative Learning
Language: English
Authors: Fernández, Manual, Wegerif, Rupert, Mercer, Neil, Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia
Source: Journal of Classroom Interaction. 2015 50(1):54-72.
Availability: University of Houston, College of Education. 442 Farish Hall, Houston, TX 77204-5026. Web site: http://www.jciuh.org/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2015
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Grade 4
Intermediate Grades
Elementary Education
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Comparative Analysis, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Cooperative Learning, Video Technology, Discourse Analysis, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Mexicans, Low Income
Geographic Terms: Mexico, United Kingdom
Assessment and Survey Identifiers: Raven Progressive Matrices
ISSN: 0749-4025
Abstract: The linked concepts of "scaffolding" and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) were originally applied to the context of asymmetrical teaching and learning with a teacher or adult explicitly supporting a learner, usually a child, to achieve tasks beyond their ability when working alone. In this paper we investigate how these concepts need to be reconceptualized if they are to be applied to the different context of symmetrical learning amongst groups of peers. We present two separate studies. In the first one we analyze the type of talk used by a group of children from Mexico solving the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (RSPM) test together both before and after an intervention program teaching "exploratory talk". Our analysis demonstrates a ZPD created by the way in which they talk together. In the second study we present the comparison of the talk of two groups of children, one from Mexico and the other from the UK, solving together a single matrix from the RSPM test. Our analysis shows how the concept of "scaffolding" can be applied to understand how these groups of children use language to support shared thinking and learning. In both studies we found that applying ideas of "scaffolding" and the ZPD to symmetrical learning required the re-conceptualization of these concepts as characterizations of dynamic processes within dialogues.
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