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The Culture of Education by Jerome S. Bruner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Culture of Education about?
What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly 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. Education, Bruner reminds us, cannot be reduced to mere information processing, sorting knowledge into categories. Its objective is to help learners construct meanings, not simply to manage information. Meaning making requires an understanding of the ways of one's culture--whether the subject in question is social studies, literature, or science. The Culture of Education makes a forceful case for the importance of narrative as an instrument of meaning making. An embodime
Who reads The Culture of Education?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jerome S. Bruner
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674251083
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Education, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.78 / 5 (89 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14