The Process of Education: Revised Edition

by Jerome Bruner

Book Overview

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 spiral curriculum has influenced a generation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674710010
• ISBN13: 9780674710016
• Release Date: September 1977
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Influential thinker

Bruner's ideas are still relevant today--a "must read" for graduate studies in curriculum and instruction