Jerome Bruner (1915–2016)
Author of The Process of Education
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
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Series
Works by Jerome Bruner
In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978 (World Library of Educationalists) (2006) 10 copies
Il pensiero. Strategie e categorie 2 copies
In Search of Pedagogy Volume II: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1979-2006 (World Library of Educationalists… (2006) 2 copies
Cultura da Educação 2 copies
Desarrollo cognitivo y educación: Selección de textos por Jesús Palacios (Spanish Edition) (2018) 1 copy
Om å lære 1 copy
Onderwijs en toekomst 1 copy
El proceso de la educación 1 copy
Sobre o Conhecimento 1 copy
Associated Works
A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies (2000) — Foreword — 56 copies, 1 review
Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn (1997) — Foreword — 44 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Bruner, Jerome Semour
- Birthdate
- 1915-10-01
- Date of death
- 2016-06-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Duke University (BA|1937)
Harvard University (MA|Psychology1939)
Harvard University (PhD|Psychology|1941) - Occupations
- child psychologist
- Relationships
- Fox, Eleanor M. (partner)
- Organizations
- Harvard University
University of Oxford
New York University
American Academy of Arts and Letters - Awards and honors
- Balzan Prize (1987)
- Disambiguation notice
- VIAF:108296631
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Reviews
On knowing : essays for the left hand by Jerome S. Bruner
Great collection of essays by Bruner on knowledge process, worth a read especially for the essays "the conditions of creativity" and "art as a mode of knowing", invaluable for everyone aspiring to a more complete and deep - not necessarily art related - knowledge of the world.
I read this in German. In general I found the arguments hard to follow. They either seemed to be so obvious that they could hardly be called a theory or so vague as to be unuseful. Unfortunately, most of the children's speech was translated, making some of the data unhelpful. As Brunner is considered to be an important expert, I might be willing to try the original (It's a short book), with the thought that some of the shortcomings might be due to translation.
I would be a lot more convinced if his data included children from different backgrounds.… (more)
I would be a lot more convinced if his data included children from different backgrounds.… (more)
Awesome book; persuasively argues how narrative (story-making/telling)--a human phenomenon--creates our (modes of) reality and how we have compartmentalize its unexpectancies (e.g. narratives that conflict morally and literarily) throughout history.
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- Rating
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