The Culture of Education

Jerome Bruner

  • Winner of the 1997 Eleanor Maccoby Award in Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association

Preface

Culture, Mind, and Education

Folk Pedagogy

The Complexity of Educational Aims

Teaching the Present, Past, and Possible

Understanding and Explaining Other Minds

Narratives of Science

The Narrative Construal of Reality

Knowing as Doing

Psychology's Next Chapter

Notes

Credits

Index

  • Cover: The Culture of Education
  • A photo of the author

Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University and the author of many books, including Acts of Meaning; On Knowing; The Process of Education; and Toward a Theory of Instruction (all published by Harvard).