To carry out his investigations, Bruner went to "the clutter of life at home," the child's own setting for learning, rather than observing children in a "contrived video laboratory." For Bruner, language is learned by using it. An central to its use are what he calls "formats," scriptlike interactio[...]

"The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon - a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature, fashions a portrait of an unforgettable human being.[...]

Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of "the cognitive revolution" in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In this text Olson encourages the reader to think about children as Bruner did, not as bundles of traits and dispositions to[...]

Kulturens väv är en essäsamling om utbildning. Men den begränsar sig inte till utbildning i vanlig bemärkelse - den handlar inte bara om skolor och klassrum. Skolgången utgör ju bara en liten del av kulturens sätt att leda in de unga på de rätta eller kanoniserade banorna. Skolgången kan [...]

Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His theories about cognitive development dominate psychology around the world today, but it is in the field of education where his influence has been especially felt. In this two volume set, Bruner ha[...]

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor; " has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we[...]

In this remarkable collaboration, one of the nation's leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world's foremost cultural psychologists to put American constitutional law into an American cultural context. By close readings of key Supreme Court opinions, they show how storytelling ta[...]

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 emergi[...]

This country's most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade's research and reflection. His theme is dual: how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn--how they can be brought to the fullest realization of their capacitie[...]

Jerome Bruner analyserer i denne bog vores trang til at fortælle og lytte til historier, en urgammel tradition, som får menneskers samvær til at give mening. Fortælling er egentlig en folkekunst, hvor der udveksles helt almindelige opfattelser af, hvordan mennesker og deres verden er. At[...]

Mening i handling er et sprudlende og velunderbygget argument for den socialkonstruktivisme, som Bruner er en fornem eksponent for.



I bogen redegør Bruner for den fortolkende kulturpsykologi, som han i de sidste mange år har funderet sin forskning og sin foredrags- og forfa[...]