process in which personal interactions within the learning environment take on considerable
significance. [For more information on curriculum as product, process, and praxis, see the article
by Smith (2000) on the following website: http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-curric.htm.] Last, it
should be mentioned that developmental theorists continue to have a strong influence on how
curriculum should be structured. Wildman (2007), for example, advocates curriculum built
around what is known about development and the Vygotskian concept of scaffolding, or what
Wildman calls “assisted performance.”