ReadingLive: Scaffolding as an embodied process within student-teacher functional system 2021-03-02

ReadingLive: Moscow CHAT Reading Club is a forum for psychologists, educators, researchers, students and all those interested in Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Approach. Note: Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Theory (CHAT) Meeting 4. March, 2 (2021) Topic: Scaffolding as an embodied process within student-teacher functional system Experts to speak: 👩‍💼 Anna Shvarts, Researcher at Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Utrecht University, the Netherlands 👨‍💼 Michael Cole, Emeritus distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego In this presentation, the invited expert discussed a paper «The early history of the scaffolding metaphor: Bernstein, Luria, Vygotsky, and before» (by Anna Shvarts and Arthur Bakker) and expanded it further, focusing on empirical and historical data. The paper uncovers the origins of the scaffolding metaphor and its connections with Nikolai Bernstein’s prominent work on the physiology of