Jerome Bruner
Jerome Bruner
Jerome Seymour Brunerwas an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 October 1915
CountryUnited States of America
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.
The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.
The fish will be the last to discover water.
In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.
Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.