Jerome Bruner

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A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. 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. Jerome Bruner is indisputably a major thinker in education. David Olson's volume offers the most coherent account of Bruner's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography, Critical exposition of Bruner's work, The reception and influence of Bruner's work, The relevance of the work today and Excerpts from an interview with Jerome Bruner.

David R. Olson is Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

"'David Olson is the right person to provide an intellectual biography of Jerome Bruner, with special focus on educational issues. In this volume, he characterizes Bruner's manifold contributions in a clear and concise manner - bringing together strands and themes that cut across fifty years of thinking and writing.' Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education"