Showing papers by "Jerome S. Bruner published in 1996"

The culture of education

Abstract: 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

What we have learned about early learning

Abstract: SUMMARY In this paper the author explores how our ideas about early learning have developed over time and proposes a new view of pedagogy, that is not based on the traditional Model of Deprivation, but outlines a new model which goes beyond deprivation. The new model proposes that the child is not deprived of culture, rather the child is deprived of opportunities for creating culture and dealing with culture. In this new perspective the child is not viewed as passive but active. The aim of schools should be to provide an ‘enabling culture’ in which the child is involved in reinventing, refurbishing and refreshing the culture. The paper also identifies and explores 3 antinomies which have emerged as ideas about early learning developed; •the ‘individual realisation’ versus the ‘culture serving’ antinomy •the ‘talent centred’ versus the ‘tool centred’ antinomy •the ‘particularism’ versus the ‘universalism’ antinomy. It is argued that an exploration of these 3 antinomies can provide a useful basis for thinki...