Jerome Bruner : The Cognitive Revolution in Educational Theory

Series Editor's Preface ix Foreword xi Preface xiii Part 1 Intellectual Biography 1 1 The Making of St Jerome 3 Part 2 Critical Exposition of Bruner's Work 11 2 Bruner's Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution 13 The Active Mind 14 Cognitive Strategies 15 Cognitive Structures 16 Culture and Cognition 17 Stages of Cognitive Development 19 Cultural Evolution and Cultural Development 22 Intentionality, Intersubjectivity, and Language Development 24 The Narrative Turn 26 From the Active Mind to Storied Mind 29 3 Bruner's 'Fresh Look' at Education 31 The Structure of Knowledge 34 Readiness for Learning 36 On Discovery Learning 38 Motivation for Learning 40 4 From Educational Theory to Educational Practice 42 MACOS - Man: A Course of Study 42 Scaffolding: Explorations in Pedagogy 45 Head Start 47 Reggio Emilia 48 5 From Practice Back to Educational Theory 50 The Theory of Instruction 50 From Instruction to Enculturation 55 Teaching as a Meeting of Minds 55 Culture and Education 58 Part 3 The Reception of Bruner's Work 61 6 The Intellectual Uptake: The Debate About Education and Human Development 63 Bruner and Dewey 64 Bruner and Piaget 68 Bruner and Vygotsky 73 7 Institutional Uptake: Bruner's Theory and Educational Reform 78 Schooling and the Margin for Reform 79 On Discovery Learning 83 Discourse and Learning 85 Bruner and the Prospects for School Reform 87 The Reception of MACOS 92 The Reception of Head Start 94 Improving Instruction in the School 96 Improving Educational Research and Theory 97 Part 4 The Relevance of Bruner's Theory to the Ongoing Educational Debates 101 8 Appraisals: The Bruner Legacy 103 The Role of Ideas in Educational Research and Educational Reform 103 Was Bruner Wrong? 105 The New Educational Discourse 107 9 Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: An Anthropology of Schooling 114 An Anthropology of Schooling 114 How Humans Learn 120 How Families Teach: Patterns of Child Rearing 122 How Institutions Teach: The Invention of Schooling 124 10 Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: A Cognitive Theory of Pedagogy 127 Folk Pedagogies: Three Ways of Thinking About Teaching and Learning 130 Part 5 Excerpts from an Interview with Jerome Bruner, 8 February 2005 139 Appendix A: On Constructing Meaning 141 Appendix B: How Bruner Became Interested in Education 147 Appendix C: Teaching the Hypothetical 154 Appendix D: On Dewey 161 Appendix E: Reggio Emilia and International Comparisons 166 Appendix F: The Meaning of Assessment 172 Appendix G: Trajectories of Bruner's Thinking 175 Appendix H: Head Start and School Reform 177 Bibliography 186 Index 195