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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808046503321

Autore

Bruner Jerome S (Jerome Seymour)

Titolo

The process of education / / Jerome S. Bruner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1977

©1960

ISBN

0-674-02899-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages)

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint of the 1960 edition with a new preface, p. [vii]-xvi.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE, 1977 -- PREFACE -- MEMBERS OF THE WOODS HOLE CONFERENCE -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THE IMPORTANCE OF STRUCTURE -- 3 READINESS FOR LEARNING -- 4 INTUITIVE AND ANALYTIC THINKING -- 5 MOTIVES FOR LEARNING -- 6 AIDS TO TEACHING -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses. Bruner's foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.