Sharpening a tool for teaching: The zone of proximal development

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 671-684

  Wass, Rob ^a   Golding, Clinton ^b  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

conceptual analysis; critical thinking; scaffold; zone of proximal development; ZPD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901624319     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2014.901958     Document Type: Article

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