Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: press, belknap, instruction, theory
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1974-01-01
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674897013
ISBN-13: 9780674897014

This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is dual: how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn--how they can be brought to the fullest realization of their capacities. Mr. Bruner, Harper’s reports, has "stirred up more excitement than any educator since John Dewey." His explorations into the nature of intellectual growth and its relation to theories of learning and methods of teaching have had a catalytic effect upon educational theory. In t

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: lectures, jerusalem, harvard, culture, mind, four, acts, meaning
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-09-01
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674003616
ISBN-13: 9780674003613

Argues that the idea of the mind as an "information processor" has led psychology away from seeing the mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations of a computational model of mind can we grasp the interaction through which mind constitutes and is constituted by culture.

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: classical, library, loeb, second, essays, hand, knowing
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 1979-01-01
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0674635256
ISBN-13: 9780674635258

The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know-that is, to teach; and how our conception of reality affects our actions and is modified by them. The striking and subtle discussions contained in On Knowing take on the core issues concerning man’s sense of self: creativity, the search for identity, the nature of aesthetic knowledge, myth, the learning process, and modem-day attitudes t

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: worlds, possible, minds, actual
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1987-10-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0674003667
ISBN-13: 9780674003668

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life--those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind--a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: education, process
Number of Pages: 97
Published: 1977-09-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0674710010
ISBN-13: 9780674710016

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses. Bruner’s foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: education, culture
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674179536
ISBN-13: 9780674179530

In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultrual psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches it full potential only through participation in the culture--not just its formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse.

Author: Jerome Bruner
Publisher: Ediciones Morata
Keywords: spanish, educacion, cognitivo, desarrollo
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1996-05
List price: $70.10
ISBN-10: 8471123193
ISBN-13: 9788471123190