There's a chapter in Kate Norman (Ed.) Thinking voices: The work of the
National Oracy Project. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992, by J. Maybin,
N. Mercer and B. Stierer, '"Scaffolding" learning in the classroom'.
Neil Mercer also discusses scaffolding in his book:
Mercer, N. (1995). The guided construction of knowledge. Clevedon UK:
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