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Scaffolding: Multiple angles

Preamble:

Thinking about developing a theory of scaffolding led me first to tease out many angles and, for each angle, a range of components or sub-angles. Faced with zillions of permutations, I asked:

a) Is there something that underlies or runs through such complexity?

b) How can we avoid the trap of developing a theory of everything, in which scaffolding adds nothing special and we reinvent the wheel? (more…)