Re: scaffolding
sveggetti who-is-at axrma.uniroma1.it
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 12:53:41 +0100
Dear Kate may be I'm entering late in your reference exchange, moreover my
voice comes from the other side of the ocean, but allow me to propose a
text about the scaffolding which was useful to me and to my students at the
Faculty of Humanities of the Uni. of Rome, where I'm teaching: Tharp &
Gallimore,1988, Rousing minds to life teaching learning and schooling in
social context, New York, Cambridge Uni. Press. Have my warmest greetings
to the New Year Serena Veggetti
At 13.18 02/01/98 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Xmcaers,
>I'm an enthusiastic lurker on xmca and want to
>thank all more active participants for the
>wonderfully stimulating posts of the last year;
>may xmca and all its members flourish in 1998.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a good
>article-length discussion of "scaffolding" in
>the Vygotskian tradition. I'd like to introduce
>teachers of language and literacy to the concept
>in the context of apprenticeship learning. That
>would include a complex sense of the task being
>taught, and ways to engage learners in thinking
>about what they're doing, how they're doing it
>and the like. Is there an accessible text folks
>use in teacher education?
>
>cheers!
>Kate Garretson, Kingsborough Community College
>The City University of New York
>
>