Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

By Jerome Bruner and Bruner

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003667
• ISBN13: 9780674003668
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Rounding Out The Picture Of Bruner's Work

Reading Bruner is as easy as putting on a wet suit just out of the drier. Many times, he obfuscates his language such that it is a struggle to capture the meaning. And he is an addicted name-dropper.But he is still worth reading, and this collection adds to the portrait of his thinking, so in that sense, I warmly recommend it. I particularly enjoyed his chapter on Vygotsky's influence on psychology and education--enough so that I will begin to go down that road and pursue some of his books.What I like most of Bruner's work is his regard for the cultural influences working in tandem with the individual's cognitive self--he respects both aspects.Whoever heard of putting a wetsuit in a drier?