The culture of education / Jerome Bruner.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : London : Harvard University Press, 1996.Description: xvi, 224 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0674179528
- 0674179536
- 370.15 BRU
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In a commentary on the possibilities of education, the psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying cultural psychology to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture - not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explains ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-212) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Culture, Mind, and Education
- Folk Pedagogy
- The Complexity of Educational Aims
- Teaching the Present, Past, and Possible
- Understanding and Explaining Other Minds
- Narratives of Science
- The Narrative Construal of Reality
- Knowing as Doing
- Psychology's Next Chapter
- Notes
- Credits
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jerome Seymour Bruner was born in Manhattan, New York on October 1, 1915. Born blind because of cataracts, he had an experimental operation to restore his vision at the age of 2. He received a degree in psychology from Duke University in 1937 and received a doctorate from Harvard University.His theories about perception, child development, and learning informed education policy and helped launch the cognitive revolution. He wrote or co-wrote several books including A Study of Thinking written with Jacqueline J. Goodnow and George A. Austin and The Process of Education. He helped design Head Start, the federal program introduced in 1965 to improve preschool development. He died on June 5, 2016 at the age of 100.
(Bowker Author Biography)