Publisher's Synopsis
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.
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.
