American cognitive psychologist who helped found the cognitive revolution in psychology and applied it to teaching through discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, the claim that core ideas of any field can be introduced simply and then revisited in deeper form as a learner matures. His Process of Education shaped American curriculum reform from the 1960s onward.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, arguing any subject can be taught honestly to a learner at any stage if revisited at increasing levels of complexity. 1 Notable WorkThe Process of Education (1960) 1 Jerome Bruner
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Jerome Bruner joined the NYU faculty in 1991, teaching primarily in the School of Law.
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Jean Piaget, Thinkers Bruner's cognitive-development work built on and argued with Piaget's stage account.
Bruner's discovery learning draws on Dewey
Lev Vygotsky, Thinkers Bruner's scaffolding idea drew on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory.
Theories and Approaches Developed
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Additional Source WikipediaInstructional scaffolding article, origin
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Theories and Approaches Developed: Discovery Learning, Jerome Bruner on the Act of Discovery essay, attributionQuote, Theories and Approaches Developed: Discovery Learning, Jerome Bruner on the Act of Discovery essay, attribution
the pioneering Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner explores in a magnificent essay titled The Act of Discovery
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Wikimedia FoundationTheories and Approaches Developed: Instructional Scaffolding, Instructional scaffolding article, origin
Wood, D.; Bruner, J.; Ross, G. (1976). The role of tutoring in problem solving. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Theories and Approaches Developed: Spiral Curriculum, Jerome Bruner, Developmental psychology section
Bruner proposed the spiral curriculum, a teaching approach in which each subject or skill area is revisited at intervals, at a more sophisticated level each time.
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In 1991, Bruner joined the faculty at New York University (NYU), where he taught primarily in the School of Law.
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