17Jul 2017

SCAFFOLDING IN PARENTING WITH RESPECT TO COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN.

  • Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Bhubaneswar.
  • Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Medical College, Berhampur.
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Since birth, children learn different skills which help them to participate in and explore their environment. Each phase of cognitive, language and social development helps in establishing the foundation for further learning and to solve problems in their lives. Skill acquisition enhances healthy development of children. Vygotsky?s scaffolding plays a vital role in overall development of children. Therefore, scaffolding has been an important and frequently studied concept. Various studies and discussions exist with regard to its conceptualizations, appearances, and effectiveness. The present article is to show the role played by parents in children?s lives for cognitive and social development. An overview is presented with numerous descriptive studies which provides evidences on the appearances of parenting (as a part of scaffolding) and classifications of parenting styles (scaffolding strategies). Their parenting styles differ in scaffolding means and intentions. And hence the social and cognitive development of children differs from each other due to different parenting styles, scaffolding means and intentions. According to Robertson, there are five components which can help in better development of children both mentally and socially. The present article highlights the five components which can be adopted by the parents in order to enhance cognitive and social entry skills of children in a positive way.


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[Smritirekha and Jagatshreya Satapathy. (2017); SCAFFOLDING IN PARENTING WITH RESPECT TO COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 456-465] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


JAGATSHREYA SATAPATHY
Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), Bhubaneswar

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4739      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4739