"'David Olson is the right person to provide an intellectual biography of Jerome Bruner, with special focus on educational issues. In this volume, he characterizes Bruner's manifold contributions in a clear and concise manner - bringing together strands and themes that cut across fifty years of thinking and writing.' Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education"

Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. David Olson's volume offers the most coherent account of Bruner's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of Bruner's work; the reception and influence of Bruner's work; the relevance of the work today; and excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner.This volume is part of a major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
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Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Bruner's educational thought. It includes: a biography; an exposition of Bruner's work; the reception and influence of Bruner's work; and excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner.
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Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of the thinker's work; The reception and influence of the work; The relevance of the work today; Bibliography; Index.
Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. David Olson's volume offers the most coherent account of Bruner's educational thought.
Volume Three in Continuum's Library of Educational Thought is the first biography of Jerome Bruner, and contains an interview between the author and his subject.
A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft. Advisory Board: Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Peter Gronn (University of Glasgow, UK), Kathy Hall (University of Ireland, Ireland), Stephen Heyneman (Vanderbilt University, USA), Yung-Shi Lin (Taipei Municipal University of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan), Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Jurgen Oelkers (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Richard Pring (University of Oxford, UK), Harvey Siegel (University of Miami, USA), Richard Smith (University of Durham, UK), Zhou Zuoyu (Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China).
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ISBN
9780826484024
Publisert
2007-11-15
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Vekt
470 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
224

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David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus of the OISE/University of Toronto, Canada. He is author of The World on Paper (CUP, 1994) and Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society (CUP, 2003). He and Nancy Torrance are coeditors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Literacy.