Vanina Bouzi
Paula Davis
Kyoko Fujimoto
Mivule Basibye Mabingo
Rachel Scott
Eunhye Yoo
Selected Bibliography
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1961 The Process of Education
1979 On Knowing : Essays for the Left Hand
1986 Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
1990 Acts of Meaning
1996 The Culture of Education
2002 Making Stories
The Process Of Education (1961)
Four Themes:
1. The importance of
structure
2. Readiness for learning
3. Intuitive and analytic
thinking
4. Motives for teaching
On Knowing :Essays for the Left Hand
(1979)
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Left hand
Creativity
Intellectual temptation
The art of teaching
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986)
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Expectations (castles)
Math and Science are universal
Arts and Humanities are subjective
M & S + A & H = Ideal Learning
Acts of Meaning (1990)
• Folk psychology
• Narrative
• Self
The Culture of Education (1996)
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Cultural psychology
School as culture
Models of learner's mind
Self-generated discovery
Making Stories (2002)
• Story Making: purpose and perspective,
importance of peripetia (trouble)
• Narrative is in contrast to logic or science, and
possible worlds of fiction. It introduces
unfamiliar concepts to students.
• Narrative in law, literature, self, in medicine
Possible Spiral Images
Intra-disciplinary
Collaborative
Interdisciplinary
Bruner Dance Class
The Swirling Spiral
Downward Spiral Dog
Korean Traditional Dance + Ballet  Korean
Ballet
Questions for Bruner
• What does your spiral look like?
• How would you assess students
progress/comprehension based on your spiral
curriculum?
Resources
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19807
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/bruner/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bruner
http://images.nigms.nih.gov/imageRepository/2543/DNA_Replication.jpg
http://www.dnamnd.med.usyd.edu.au/DNA_logo.jpg
http://www.webstaurantstore.com/tablecraft-8175bk-8-1-2-x-7-3-4-large-black-spiralwire-cone-basket/tablecraft-8175bk-8-1-2-x-7-3-4-large-black-spiral-wire-conebasket.jpg