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  • Acts of Meaning

    Four Lectures on Mind and Culture

    by Jerome Seymour Bruner ...
    Series Book 3 - The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
    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 grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

    by Jerome Seymour Bruner ...
    Series Book 1 - The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
    In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life—those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and ... Read more

    $27.49 USD

  • In Search of Pedagogy Volume I

    The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

    by Jerome S. Bruner ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    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 has selected and assembled his most important writings about education. Volume I spans the twenty years ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Relevance of Education

    by Jerome Bruner ...
    "Education is in a state of crisis. It has failed to respond to changing social needs—lagging behind rather than leading." The crisis that Jerome Bruner identifies in this volume admits of no easy solutions. But the noted American psychologist makes clear that educational reform must begin with the understanding of how a child acquires information and converts knowledge into action. Drawing on his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Culture of Education

    by Jerome Seymour Bruner ...
    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 emerging "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Toward a Theory of Instruction

    by Jerome Seymour Bruner ...
    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 capacities.Jerome Bruner, Harper’s reports, has “stirred up more excitement than any educator since John Dewey ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)

    The Child's Construction of the World

    Edited by Jerome S. Bruner, Helen Haste ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view that ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Interaction in Human Development

    Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, Jerome S. Bruner ...
    Series series Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology Series
    Interaction in Human Development unites theoretical essays and empirical accounts bearing directly on the nature of interactions as a principal factor and organizing feature in human mental and social development. The papers discuss all areas of interaction including genetic, environmental, life-span, interpersonal, and cultural. Ideal as a text for students and as a reference for professionals in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Mind of a Mnemonist

    A Little Book about a Vast Memory, With a New Foreword by Jerome S. Bruner

    by A. R. Luria ...
    Translated by Lynn Solotaroff ...
    This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon—a man who was endowed with virtually limitless powers of memory. From his intimate knowledge of S., the mnemonist, gained from conversations and testing over a period of almost thirty years, A. R. Luria is able to reveal in rich detail not only the obvious strengths of S.’s astonishing memory but also his surprising weaknesses: his ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Process of Education

    Revised Edition

    by Jerome Seymour Bruner ...
    In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses.Bruner’s foundational case for the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Constructing Panic

    The Discourse of Agoraphobia

    by Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs ...
    Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Constructing Panic

    The Discourse of Agoraphobia

    by Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs ...
    Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD