The spiral approach, or spiral curriculum, is an educational strategy, closely associated with psychologist Jerome Bruner, in which key concepts and skills are introduced early in a course of study and then revisited repeatedly across subsequent units and grade levels, with each pass through the material building in depth and complexity on what came before. Bruner argued that any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form to a learner at any stage of development, provided the material is structured to spiral back to foundational ideas as the learner matures. The approach has influenced curriculum design in subjects such as mathematics and science, where foundational concepts like fractions or the nature of matter are reintroduced at increasing levels of sophistication over multiple school years. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimThe spiral approach is a technique often used in education where the initial focus of instruction is the basic facts of a subject, with further details being introduced as learning progresses. 1 Connections
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The spiral approach is a technique often used in education where the initial focus of instruction is the basic facts of a subject, with further details being introduced as learning progresses.
Spiral approach (Wikipedia)
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Jerome Bruner proposed the spiral curriculum as 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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