Jerome Bruner

David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. He studied under Bruner at Harvard University’s Centre for Cognitive Studies in the 1960s. Author or editor of 20 book and some 300 research articles, his work is best represented by two of his books: The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (1994) and Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How Schools Remakes Mind and Society (2004).

Olson’s book on the work of Jerome Bruner is a deeply informed and incisively written gem... Olson - one of Bruner’s many influential students - makes sense of his work in a way that ties it to developments in psychology and education from the 1960’s to the present. Olson relates Bruner’s work to that of John Dewey, and to his own views, which place more emphasis on schools as independent institutions. The result is a highly readable and informed account of developments in educational psychology and their relation to educational practice.

• Series Editor's PrefaceForewordPrefacePart I: Intellectual Biography 1. The Making of St. JeromePart II: Critical Exposition of Bruner's Work 2. Bruner's Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution3. Bruner's 'Fresh Look' at Education4. From Educational Theory to Educational Practice5. From Practice back to Educational TheoryPart III: The Reception of Bruner's Work 6. The Intellectual Uptake: The Debate About Education and Human Development7. Institutional Uptake: Bruner's Theory and Educational Reform Part IV: The Relevance of Bruner's Theory to the Ongoing Educational Debates8. Appraisals: The Bruner Legacy9. Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: An Anthropology of Schooling10. Brunerian Perspectives on the Way Forward: A Cognitive Theory of PedagogyPart V: Excerpts from an Interview with Jerome Bruner, 8 February 2005Bibliography Index