TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruner,Jerome S.
TI  - The culture of education
SN  - 0674179528
AV  - LB1051 .B736 1996
U1  - 370.15 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Educational anthropology
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index
N2  - What we don't know about learning could fill a book - and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterful 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 through participation in the culture - not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explores new and rich ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators; Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend. Educators, psychologists, and students of mind and culture will find in this volume an unsettling criticism that challenges our current conventional practices - as well as a wise vision that charts a direction for the future
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