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Jerome Bruner : the cognitive revolution in educational theory / David Olson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 3.Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xv, 208 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826484026
  • 9780826484024
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.92 22
LOC classification:
  • LA2317.B734 O47 2007
Contents:
Part 1. Intellectual Biography -- 1. On becoming St. Jerome -- Part 2. Critical Exposition of Bruner's work -- 2. Bruner's Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution -- The active mind -- Strategies for thinking -- Cognitive strategies -- Culture and cognition -- Cultural evolution and cultural development -- Intentionality, intersubjectivity and language development -- The narrative turn -- 3. Bruner's 'fresh look' at education -- The structure of knowledge -- Readiness for learning -- On discovery learning -- Motivation for learning -- 4. From educational theory to educational practice -- MACOS'Man: A course of study -- Scaffolding: Explorations in pedagogy -- Head Start -- Reggio Emilia -- 5. From practice back to educational theory -- The theory of instruction -- From instruction to enculturation -- Teaching as the meeting of minds -- Culture and education -- Part 3. The reception of Bruner's work -- 6. Intellectual uptake: The debate about education and human development -- Bruner and Dewey -- Bruner and Piaget -- Bruner and Vygotsky -- 7. Institutional uptake: Bruner's theory and educational reform -- Schooling and the margin for reform -- On discovery learning -- Discourse and learning -- Bruner and the prospects for school reform -- The reception of MACOS -- The reception of Headstart -- Improving instruction in the school -- Improving educational research and theory -- Part 4. The relevance of Bruner's theory to the ongoing educational debates -- 8. Appraisals: The Bruner legacy -- Shelving Bruner along with Dewey -- Was Bruner wrong' -- The new educational discourse -- 9. Brunerian perspectives on the way forward: An anthropology of schooling -- 10. Brunerian perspectives on the way forward: A cognitive theory of pedagogy -- Part 5. Excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner on 8 February 2005.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-194) and index.

Part 1. Intellectual Biography -- 1. On becoming St. Jerome -- Part 2. Critical Exposition of Bruner's work -- 2. Bruner's Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution -- The active mind -- Strategies for thinking -- Cognitive strategies -- Culture and cognition -- Cultural evolution and cultural development -- Intentionality, intersubjectivity and language development -- The narrative turn -- 3. Bruner's 'fresh look' at education -- The structure of knowledge -- Readiness for learning -- On discovery learning -- Motivation for learning -- 4. From educational theory to educational practice -- MACOS'Man: A course of study -- Scaffolding: Explorations in pedagogy -- Head Start -- Reggio Emilia -- 5. From practice back to educational theory -- The theory of instruction -- From instruction to enculturation -- Teaching as the meeting of minds -- Culture and education -- Part 3. The reception of Bruner's work -- 6. Intellectual uptake: The debate about education and human development -- Bruner and Dewey -- Bruner and Piaget -- Bruner and Vygotsky -- 7. Institutional uptake: Bruner's theory and educational reform -- Schooling and the margin for reform -- On discovery learning -- Discourse and learning -- Bruner and the prospects for school reform -- The reception of MACOS -- The reception of Headstart -- Improving instruction in the school -- Improving educational research and theory -- Part 4. The relevance of Bruner's theory to the ongoing educational debates -- 8. Appraisals: The Bruner legacy -- Shelving Bruner along with Dewey -- Was Bruner wrong' -- The new educational discourse -- 9. Brunerian perspectives on the way forward: An anthropology of schooling -- 10. Brunerian perspectives on the way forward: A cognitive theory of pedagogy -- Part 5. Excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner on 8 February 2005.

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