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Jerome Bruner 1915 - Present By: Ryan Graville Eli Heide Bryce Johnson
Transcript of Bruner
Jerome Bruner
1915 - Present
By: Ryan Graville
Eli Heide
Bryce Johnson
● Biography
● Published Books
● Influences
● View of Knowledge
● Three Learning Modes
● View of the Learner
● How Learning Occurs
● Role of the Teacher
Agenda
● Teaching Methods
● Criticisms
● Lasting Impact
● Video
● Presentation Debrief
● Lesson Plan
● Lesson Debrief
● Born on October 1, 1915 in New York
● He received his B.A. in Psychology from Duke
University in 1937
● He then received his PhD in psychology from Harvard in
1941
● From 1941 to 1945 he served as an expert on
Psychological Warfare for the Allies in Europe
● Became a Professor of Psychology at Harvard in 1952
Biography
Biography cont.
● Served on the President's Science Advisory Committee
for President Kennedy and Johnson
● Left Harvard in 1972 to become a Professor of
Psychology at Oxford.
● In 1980 he took a job at New York University where he
remains to this day
● Bruner also helped found Head Start
Published books
● A Study of Thinking (1956)
● The Process of Education (1960)
● Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966)
● Studies in Cognitive Growth (1966)
● Processes of Cognitive Growth: Infancy (1968)
● Beyond the Information Given, W. W. Norton &
Company(1973)
● On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (1979)
● Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language(1983)
● Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (1983)
● Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1985)
● The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a
Vast Memory [Foreword only] 1987)
● Acts of Meaning (1990)
● The Culture of Education (1996)
● Minding the Law (2000)
● Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life (2003)
● Piaget ○ Cognitive Development in Children
● Vygotsky○ Social Constructivism
Influences
View of Knowledge● A founding father of Constructivism.
● Discovery Learning: Students construct knowledge for
themselves through inquiry and discovery.
● Any student Can learn any concept when presented
appropriately.
● "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.
Three learning modes
View of the learner
● Active problem solver
● Student is directly involved in the manipulation of the
content in each three areas
● Any student can learn anything if taught in the proper
way
● Active and engaged in the teaching
● Construct their own knowledge
How learning occurs
● Discovery learning
● Intrinsic motivation
● Working together on projects
● Active learning
● Learning is a continuous process
Role of the Teacher
● Not about excessively lecturing to the students
● Not about making the students memorize information
● Act as a guide for their learning
● Engaging the class in hands on, discussion, and
participation based activities
Teaching Methods
● Discovery Learning: Students construct their own
knowledge through hands on experience and discovery
● Spiral Curriculum: Complex ideas are first taught at
simplified levels, then revisited at more complex levels
Criticisms
● Inefficient and difficult to organize
● Students need prerequisite skills/knowledge
● Students develop misconceptions
● Teachers struggle to detect individual struggles
Lasting Impact
● Learning through discovery
● The use of manipulatives
● Children are programmed to learn
● Active learning
Presentation Debrief
● How does Bruner compare to Skinner and Gagne?
● What experiences have you had in the classroom that
are similar to Bruner’s philosophy?
Lesson Plan: Review Concepts
● Ratios
● Percentages
● Decimals
● Fractions
Crime Scene
Investigation
The Crime•A robbery has been committed
in which one person was fatally injured and $1 million was stolen
The evidence• You have five pieces of evidence which
have been gathered.
You need to use your Mathematical skills and knowledge to analyze the evidence and eliminate
suspects
The Suspects
The Accusation• Who was the criminal?
• Based on what evidence?– How did you eliminate the other suspects?
– What was the criminal’s motive?
The verdict
Lesson Debrief
● What are some ways we incorporated Bruner's ideas
into our lesson plan?
● Could you apply Bruner’s theories in your own
classroom?
● What are some potential problems that might arise?
References
● Bruner, J. S. (1960). The process of education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
● Bruner, J. S. (2006). In search of pedagogy: The selected works of Jerome S. Bruner. London: Routledge.
● Khataybeh, A., & Ateeg, N. A. (2011). How "writing academic english" follows bruner's spiral model in curriculum planning.
Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies,127-138.Retrieved from
http://jeteraps.scholarlinkresearch.org/articles/How%20Writing%20Academic%20English%20Follows%20Bruner%20Spiral
%20Model%20in%20Curriculum%20Planning.pdf
● Reeshughes, L. (2011, October). Share my lesson by teachers, for teachers. Retrieved from
http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Number-CSI-Solve-the-and-quot-Crime-and-quot-6120824/
● Takaya, K. (2013). Jerome Bruner :Developing a sense of the possible.Dordrecht:Springer.
● Takaya, K. (2008). Jerome Bruner's Theory of Education: From Early Bruner to Later Bruner. Interchange, 39(1), 1-19.
● Theories of Learning in Educational Psychology. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.lifecircles-
inc.com/Learningtheories/constructivism/bruner.html
