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Biographical note
David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. He studied under Bruner at Harvard University’s Centre for Cognitive Studies in the 1960s. Author or editor of 20 book and some 300 research articles, his work is best represented by two of his books: The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (1994) and Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How Schools Remakes Mind and Society (2004).Olson’s book on the work of Jerome Bruner is a deeply informed and incisively written gem... Olson - one of Bruner’s many influential students - makes sense of his work in a way that ties it to developments in psychology and education from the 1960’s to the present. Olson relates Bruner’s work to that of John Dewey, and to his own views, which place more emphasis on schools as independent institutions. The result is a highly readable and informed account of developments in educational psychology and their relation to educational practice.
- Eric Bredo, University of Toronto, Canada,
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 be diagnosed and remediated, but as thoughtful, keenly interested, agentive persons who are willing and indeed able to play an important role in their own learning and development.
Through the unique approach of combining commentary and conversation with Bruner, the author provides an insight into what it is like to engage with one of the intellectual masters of our time and highlights the relevance and importance of his contribution to educational thinking today.
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. The Making of St. Jerome
Part II: Critical Exposition of Bruner's Work
2. Bruner's Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution
3. Bruner's 'Fresh Look' at Education
4. From Educational Theory to Educational Practice
5. From Practice back to Educational Theory
Part III: The Reception of Bruner's Work
6. The Intellectual Uptake: The Debate About Education and Human Development
7. Institutional Uptake: Bruner's Theory and Educational Reform
Part IV: The Relevance of Bruner's Theory to the Ongoing Educational Debates
8. Appraisals: The Bruner Legacy
9. Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: An Anthropology of Schooling
10. Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: A Cognitive Theory of Pedagogy
Part V: Excerpts from an Interview with Jerome Bruner, 8 February 2005
Bibliography
Index
This series provides accounts of the work of seminal thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions, exploring the contribution and significance of the thinker’s central ideas and arguments and their relevance to educational thought today. With each book written by a leading philosopher in education, these volumes are definitive companions for students of education and the philosophy of education.
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.