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Jerome Bruner
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American cognitive psychologist who helped found the cognitive revolution in psychology and applied it to teaching through discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, the claim that core ideas of any field can be introduced simply and then revisited in deeper form as a learner matures. His Process of Education shaped American curriculum reform from the 1960s onward.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped discovery learning and the spiral curriculum, arguing any subject can be taught honestly to a learner at any stage if revisited at increasing levels of complexity. 1 Notable WorkThe Process of Education (1960) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Theories and Approaches Developed
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the pioneering Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner explores in a magnificent essay titled The Act of Discovery
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Wood, D.; Bruner, J.; Ross, G. (1976). The role of tutoring in problem solving. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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