Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) & Scaffolding

Learners do their most consequential cognitive work in the zone between what they can do alone and what they can do with help from a more capable other — and the temporary, contingent, fading support that lifts performance into that zone is what Wood, Bruner and Ross called scaffolding.

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