{"id":8996,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/scaffolding\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:47","slug":"scaffolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/scaffolding\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In sociocultural and neo-Piagetian skill theories of development, the ways in which adults assist and support children in their attempts to perform complex tasks. &nbsp;Scaffolding occurs when adults or more accomplished peers perform part of a task for a child, direct or otherwise structure a child&#8217;s actions in order to support task performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"problem_solving\">Problem solving<\/a>, Zone of proximal development (ZPD).<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sociocultural and neo-Piagetian skill theories of development, the ways in which adults assist and support children in their attempts to perform complex tasks. &nbsp;Scaffolding occurs when adults or more accomplished peers perform part of a task for a child, direct or otherwise structure a child&#8217;s actions in order to support task performance.&nbsp; See Language &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/scaffolding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scaffolding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}