The Culture of Education / Edition 2

The Culture of Education / Edition 2

by Jerome Bruner
ISBN-10:
0674179536
ISBN-13:
9780674179530
Pub. Date:
04/25/1997
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674179536
ISBN-13:
9780674179530
Pub. Date:
04/25/1997
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
The Culture of Education / Edition 2

The Culture of Education / Edition 2

by Jerome Bruner
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Overview

What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. 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 "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture--not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explores new and rich ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators.

Education, Bruner reminds us, cannot be reduced to mere information processing, sorting knowledge into categories. Its objective is to help learners construct meanings, not simply to manage information. Meaning making requires an understanding of the ways of one's culture--whether the subject in question is social studies, literature, or science. The Culture of Education makes a forceful case for the importance of narrative as an instrument of meaning making. An embodiment of culture, narrative permits us to understand the present, the past, and the humanly possible in a uniquely human way.

Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, 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. Educators, psychologists, and students of mind and culture will find in this volume an unsettling criticism that challenges our current conventional practices--as well as a wise vision that charts a direction for the future.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674179530
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/25/1997
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Culture, Mind, and Education

Folk Pedagogy

The Complexity of Educational Aims

Teaching the Present, Past, and Possible

Understanding and Explaining Other Minds

Narratives of Science

The Narrative Construal of Reality

Knowing as Doing

Psychology's Next Chapter

Notes

Credits

Index

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