Culture of Education

Informationen zum Autor Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University. Klappentext In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultrual psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches it full potential only through participation in the culture--not just its formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome S. Bruner, Jerome Bruner, Bruner Jerome
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.04.1997
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family
• EAN: 9780674179530
• ISBN: 978-0-674-17953-0
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions (packing): 16 x 23.7 x 1.7 cm
• Subjects: Education, Cultural Studies, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education