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ERIC Number: EJ548229
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-4985
Vygotsky, Tutoring and Learning.
Wood, David; Wood, Heather
Oxford Review of Education, v22 n1 p5-16 Mar 1996
Maintains that a common set of principles governs all tutoring, no matter what the age range, and extending to a variety of formats (including computers). Compares Lev Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development with "scaffolding," both concepts relating to the process of effective educational cooperation between adults and children. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Computer Uses in Education, Cross Age Teaching, Developmental Stages, Educational Principles, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individual Instruction, Individual Needs, Psychoeducational Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Social Scientists, Teaching Methods, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United Kingdom; Vygotsky (Lev S)