ABSTRACT
This chapter presents case studies that show most effective way of enhancing scaffolding learning. It discusses two theorists who have connection with scaffolding, including Lev Vygotsky, and Jerome Bruner. Vygotsky thought very carefully about one of the features of early learning, which was that young children can almost always do or achieve something when they have help doing it. He suggested that there is a notional gap between what the child could do alone and what the child could do with help, and he called this the Zone of Proximal Development. Bruner, interested in young children and learning and teaching, had read Vygotsky's work and it was he who first used the word scaffolding in connection with education. To scaffold learning you and the child need to share attention. This means you must have a very good idea of what the child is interested in, paying attention to, asking a question about or trying to achieve.
