Jerome Bruner

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Jerome Bruner

• Angela Gamboa, Danielle Goetzinger, Emily Weyman

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Background

• Born in 1915 in NY
• Duke
• BA in 1937
• Harvard
• PhD in 1947
• Professor at Harvard and Oxford
• NYU School of Law and New School for Social
  Research
• Inspired by Piaget and Vygotsky

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Constructivism

• Illustrated math/social sciences
• Discovery learning
• Learning by doing ensures that information is
  understandable and retained

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Major Principles

• Spiral organization
• Readiness
• Going beyond the given information

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Contributions

• Educational psychology publications
• Social psychology research during WWII
• Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard
• MACOS project

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Application and Technology

• Scaffolding
• Internet, etc. as tool for discovery
• Multimedia to present findings
• Webquests

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References

• Tip.psychology.org/bruner.html
• Infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm
• Allafrica.com/stores/printable/200708070489.html
• Au.geocities.com/vanunoo/humannature/bruner.html
• http//www.slc.k12.ut.us/webweavers/raym/vrtstud.h
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