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Book Knowing the Bruners

Download or read book Knowing the Bruners written by Donald Lewis Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Knowing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Seymour Bruner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780674635258
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book On Knowing written by Jerome Seymour Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know--that is, to teach; and how our conception of reality affects our actions and is modified by them. The striking and subtle discussions contained in On Knowing take on the core issues concerning man's sense of self: creativity, the search for identity, the nature of aesthetic knowledge, myth, the learning process, and modern-day attitudes toward social controls, Freud, and fate. In this revised, expanded edition, Bruner comments on his personal efforts to maintain an intuitively and rationally balanced understanding of human nature, taking into account the odd historical circumstances which have hindered academic psychology's attempts in the past to know man. Writing with wit, imagination, and deep sympathy for the human condition, Jerome Bruner speaks here to the part of man's mind that can never be completely satisfied by the right-handed virtues of order, rationality, and discipline.

Book Toward a Theory of Instruction

Download or read book Toward a Theory of Instruction written by Jerome Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is dual: how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn—how they can be brought to the fullest realization of their capacities. Jerome Bruner, Harper’s reports, has “stirred up more excitement than any educator since John Dewey.” His explorations into the nature of intellectual growth and its relation to theories of learning and methods of teaching have had a catalytic effect upon educational theory. In this new volume the subjects dealt with in The Process of Education are pursued further, probed more deeply, given concrete illustration and a broader context. “One is struck by the absence of a theory of instruction as a guide to pedagogy,” Mr. Bruner observes; “in its place there is principally a body of maxims.” The eight essays in this volume, as varied in topic as they are unified in theme, are contributions toward the construction of such a theory. What is needed in that enterprise is, inter alia, “the daring and freshness of hypotheses that do not take for granted as true what has merely become habitual,” and these are amply evidenced here. At the conceptual core of the book is an illuminating examination of how mental growth proceeds, and of the ways in which teaching can profitably adapt itself to that progression and can also help it along. Closely related to this is Mr. Bruner’s “evolutionary instrumentalism,” his conception of instruction as the means of transmitting the tools and skills of a culture, the acquired characteristics that express and amplify man’s powers—especially the crucial symbolic tools of language, number, and logic. Revealing insights are given into the manner in which language functions as an instrument of thought. The theories presented are anchored in practice, in the empirical research from which they derive and in the practical applications to which they can be put. The latter are exemplified incidentally throughout and extensively in detailed descriptions of two courses Mr. Bruner has helped to construct and to teach—an experimental mathematics course and a multifaceted course in social studies. In both, the students’ encounters with the material to be mastered are structured and sequenced in such a way as to work with, and to reinforce, the developmental process. Written with all the style and élan that readers have come to expect of Mr. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction is charged with the provocative suggestions and inquiries of one of the great innovators in the field of education.

Book Acts of Meaning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Bruner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 0674253051
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Acts of Meaning written by Jerome Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.

Book The Process of Education  Revised Edition

Download or read book The Process of Education Revised Edition written by Jerome S. BRUNER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. 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.

Book Actual Minds  Possible Worlds

Download or read book Actual Minds Possible Worlds written by Jerome S. BRUNER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.

Book The Culture of Education

Download or read book The Culture of Education written by Jerome Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.

Book Beyond the Information Given

Download or read book Beyond the Information Given written by Jerome S. Bruner and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1973-04-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Joseph Brunner of Rothenstein  Schifferstadt  and Frederick

Download or read book Joseph Brunner of Rothenstein Schifferstadt and Frederick written by Donald Lewis Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Brunner was baptized as Josephus on August 26, 1678. He was the son of Heinrich and Maria (Braun) Brunner of Rotenstein. He married Cathrina Elisabetha Thomas, daughter of Christian and Anna Margaretha Thomas, on November 23, 1700 at Schifferstadt. Eight children were born of this union. The family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1729. Joseph and family settled in Prince Georges' County, Maryland by 1736. He died some time between 1753 and 1756 in Maryland.

Book Introducing Bruner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra Smidt
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 1136816704
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Introducing Bruner written by Sandra Smidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a journey through some of Bruner’s key concepts in relation to early learning and teaching.

Book Making Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Seymour Bruner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780674010994
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Making Stories written by Jerome Seymour Bruner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work? This text examines this pervasive human habit and suggests ways to think about how we use stories.

Book The Process of Education

Download or read book The Process of Education written by Jerome Seymour Bruner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gardener and the Carpenter

Download or read book The Gardener and the Carpenter written by Alison Gopnik and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--

Book In Search of Pedagogy Volume I

Download or read book In Search of Pedagogy Volume I written by Jerome S. Bruner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His theories about cognitive development dominate psychology around the world today, but it is in the field of education where his influence has been especially felt. In this two volume set, Bruner has selected and assembled his most important writings about education. Volume I spans the twenty years from 1957 to 1978 and Volume II covers 1979 to 2006. Volume I starts with a specially written introduction by Bruner, in which he gives an overview of the 1957-1978 years and contextualises his selection of papers. The articles and chapters then reveal the thinking, the concepts and the empirical research of that time that have made Bruner one of the most respected and cited educational authorities of our time.

Book Deals from Hell

Download or read book Deals from Hell written by Robert F. Bruner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the worst M&A deals ever and the lessons learned from them It's common knowledge that about half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions destroy value for the buyer's shareholders, and about three-quarters fall short of the expectations prevailing at the time the deal is announced. In Deals from Hell, Robert Bruner, one of the foremost thinkers and educators in this field, uncovers the real reasons for these mishaps by taking a closer look at twelve specific instances of M&A failure. Through these real-world examples, he shows readers what went wrong and why, and converts these examples into cautionary tales for executives who need to know how they can successfully navigate their own M&A deals. These page-turning business narratives in M&A failure provide much-needed guidance in this area of business. By addressing the key factors to M&A success and failure, this comprehensive guide illustrates the best ways to analyze, design, and implement M&A deals. Filled with in-depth insights, expert advice, and valuable lessons gleaned from other M&A transactions, Deals from Hell helps readers avoid the common pitfalls associated with this field and presents them with a clear framework for thinking about how to make any M&A transaction a success.

Book Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing

Download or read book Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing written by Elliot Eisner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eighty-Fourth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II

Book Finding God in the Story of Amazing Grace

Download or read book Finding God in the Story of Amazing Grace written by Kurt D. Bruner and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the major motion picture hits theaters this spring, the best-selling coauthors of the Finding God series explore the true story of how God'TMs amazing grace ended the British slave trade. With profound reflections drawn from the lives of two men, William Wilberforce and John Newton, who wrote the beloved hymn, the authors reveal God'TMs grace in our everyday struggles and show how he uses even the smallest of events and weakest of individuals to implement his grander plan in this world.