Jerome Bruner

David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus of the OISE/University of Toronto, Canada. He is author of The World on Paper (CUP, 1994) and Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society (CUP, 2003). He and Nancy Torrance are coeditors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Literacy.

"'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"

• Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of the thinker's work; The reception and influence of the work; The relevance of the work today; Bibliography; Index.