The purpose of the present study was to find out the distribution and the type of scaffolding used by teachers and peer groups. Sixty children of aged four to five years and two teachers from the kindergarten in Seoul were involved in the study. Their...
The purpose of the present study was to find out the distribution and the type of scaffolding used by teachers and peer groups. Sixty children of aged four to five years and two teachers from the kindergarten in Seoul were involved in the study. Their interactions in the conversation and sharing activity, and the project activity were video taped to analyze the scaffolding. The seven types of scaffolding suggested by Bliss and Askew were adopted in analyzing the data. Based on their work, all episodes were classified into each type of scaffolding, and the each subordinate category was analyzed qualitatively. After counting the frequency of categorized episodes, the distribution of scaffolding was converted into percentile. As a result, it was found that scaffolding was more frequently in the project activity than the conversation and sharing activity.