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ERIC Number: EJ1185696
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0228-0671
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The 'More Knowledgeable Other': A Necessity in the Zone of Proximal Development?
Abtahi, Yasmine
For the Learning of Mathematics, v37 n1 p35-39 2017
In this writing, I report on how two 12-year old children used fraction strips to add 1/2 and 2/5. In their interaction with the tool, I look for the emergence of the tool-mediated Zone of Proximal Development to analyse the knowing that become available to the children. In thinking about this interaction, I ask what is the role of the more knowledgeable other? Who/what becomes one, in an interaction? Who possesses what is called "knowledge" more than the other, to then becomes "the more knowledgeable other"? Through the analysis of a transcript expert, I think about and tackle these questions.
FLM Publishing Association. 382 Education South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada. e-mail: flm2@ualberta.ca; Web site: http://flm.educ.ualberta.ca
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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