En este libro, Jerome Bruner, uno de los padres de aquella revolución cognitiva que hace más de cuarenta años cambió la psicología, hace una crítica brillante e incisiva de su desarrollo histórico y de su...
Los autores de esta obra se han centrado en un fenómeno fundamental: la categorización o conceptualización, y han ilustrado su trabajo con numerosos experimentos originales. Han intentado describir qué sucede cuando la intelige...
El presente volumen selecciona los trabajos más representativos en la problemática del desarrollo y la educación que BRUNER (uno de los más grandes psicólogos de nuestro siglo) ha ido elaborando en su larga y muy fruct&i...
To carry out his investigations, Bruner went to "the clutter of life at home," the child's own setting for learning, rather than observing children in a "contrived video laboratory." For Bruner, language is learned by using it....
The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in incr...
A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published...
Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His theories about cognitive development dominate psychology around the world today, but it is in the field of education where his influence has been espec...
Seventy years after his death, the visionary work of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934) continues to have a profound impact on psychology, sociology, education, and other varied disciplines. The Essential Vygotsky selects the most significant writings...
Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy described to a colleague, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work?
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as âinformation processor,â has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only...
This country's most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade's research and reflection. His theme is dual: how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn-how they can be...