Scaffolding 5-year-old children in Japanese kindergarten collaboratively retelling a tale |
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| Authors: | Aiko Oshiro Agneta Pihl Louise Peterson Niklas Pramling |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Education, Kio University, Nara, Japan;2. Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This study reports an analysis of how children in a Japanese kindergarten are scaffolded when facing the challenge of collaboratively retelling a kitsune story they have been told. What is referred to as a kitsune story is an example of a trickster tale with foxes as anthropomorphised animals. The participants were ten 5-year-old children and their teacher. Told a story by their teacher, the children were asked later to collaboratively retell it. How this retelling activity is supported – theorised in terms of the metaphor of scaffolding – is analysed on the basis of recordings. The findings show the nature of this evolving process. The conclusion is that the metaphor of scaffolding may require some contextual specification to remain a functional conceptual – and in extension, pedagogical – tool in activities fundamentally different from the activity studied in Wood, Bruner and Ross’ founding 1976 study. |
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| Keywords: | Scaffolding narrating remembering understanding kindergarten |
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