Lab technicians and high school student interns-Who is scaffolding whom?: On forms of emergent expertise

Apprenticeship and the associated support mechanism of scaffolding have received considerable interest by educational researchers as ways of inducting students into science. Most studies treat scaffolding as a one‐way process, where the expert supports the development of the novice. However, if social processes generally and conversations specifically are dialogical in nature then we would expect to observe two‐way processes. The purpose of this...