biography
| name: |
Bruner, Jerome (Seymour)
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pronunciation:
[brooner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Psychologist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Duke University and Harvard, and was professor of psychology at Harvard (1952–72), Oxford (1972–80), and the New School for Social Research, New York City. In a number of works published in the 1960s he stressed the centrality of teaching for underlying cognitive structure, and the usefulness of the ‘spiral curriculum’. His humanities programme ‘Man: a Course of Study’, described in Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966), has been held to be a landmark in curriculum development. He has pioneered techniques for investigating infant perception, and is a leading advocate of the value of the phenomenological tradition in psychology. |
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