CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘scaffolding’ was developed as a metaphor to describe the type of assistance offered by a teacher or peer to support learning. In the process of scaffolding, the teacher helps the student master a task or concept that the student is initially unable to grasp independently.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vygotsky coined a definition of instructional scaffolding that focused on teacher practices. He defined this as, ‘the role of teachers and others in supporting the learner’s development and providing support structures to get to that next stage or level’ (Raymond, 2000).

Detailed explanation-3: -Wood et al. (1976, p. 90) define scaffolding as a process “that enables a child or novice to solve a task or achieve a goal that would be beyond his unassisted efforts."

Detailed explanation-4: -Scaffolding is Vygotsky’s term for the appropriate assistance given by the teacher to assist the learner accomplish a task. This experience, together with his interest in literature and his work as a teacher, led him to recognize social interaction and language as a two central factors in cognitive development.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vygotsky was a key figure in Soviet Psychology who studied children and developed his own theories about how learning occurs. He believed that learning happens in three different stages: cognitive, motoric, and sociocultural.