On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
Essay
By: Jerome Bruner
Date: 1962
Source: Bruner, Jerome. "The Act of Discovery." In On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962, 81–85.
About the Author: Jerome S. Bruner (1915–) is a well-known psychologist and educator. In 1960, he cofounded the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard. Bruner was also involved in the MACOS (Man: A Course of Study) project, an attempt to produce a comprehensive curriculum based on behavioral sciences. Bruner has been a prolific author, writing several important works in the field of cognitive science.
Introduction
Jerome Bruner was one of many psychologists studying the areas of thinking and learning in the 1950s and 1960s. He came to believe that "learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge." At the heart...
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