The Process of Education, Revised Edition

Jerome S. BRUNER

Harvard University Press, May 1, 1977 - Education - 97 pages

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.

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User Review  - Irene - Goodreads

Pretty informative, some really interesting ideas, and still relevant today even though it was written 50 years ago. It really is amazing how relevant these books written so long ago are to modern educational problems... It makes me think of how little we've progressed.

Review: The Process of Education

User Review  - Shannon - Goodreads

A good conversation starter. Bruner and other concerned intellectuals got together in the late 50s, early 60s and mapped out some areas that teachers and other curriculum creators might want to look ...

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• THE IMPORTANCE OF STRUCTURE: 17
• READINESS FOR LEARNING: 33
• INTUITIVE AND ANALYTIC THINKING: 55
• MOTIVES FOR LEARNING: 69
• AIDS TO TEACHING: 81
• INDEX: 95

About the author

Jerome Bruner has written many seminal works on education and cognitive studies, including "The Culture of Education" (1996), "Acts of Meaning" (1990), "On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand" (1962), and "The Process of Education" (1961). Through his distinguished career, first as professor of psychology at Harvard and then as Watts Professor at Oxford, he has been at the forefront of what became, in the 1960s, the much-heralded Cognitive Revolution that forever changed the way psychologists study the mind. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, he served on the president's Science and Advisory Committee, and he has since helped to found Head Start. Currently, he lives in his native New York City with his wife, Carol Fleisher Feldman, and teaches at NYU Law School.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Process of Education, Revised Edition; Volume 115 of A Harvard paperback; Vintage books
• Author: Jerome S. BRUNER
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1977
• ISBN: 0674710010, 9780674710016
• Length: 97 pages
• Subjects: Education / General