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 of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.

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).

Read More by Jerome Bruner:

• The Culture of Education
• Toward a Theory of Instruction
• Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
• On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second Edition
• Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
• Minding the Law
• The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
• Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia
• Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life