Jerome Bruner and his impact on learning theory - took Piaget and looked at his theories from a different prespective - are the stages variant?
The aim of education is to make the learner as autonomous and self-propelled a thinker as possible (Bruner, 1961)
Humans use 3 systems to represent their environments
- patterned motor acts (ie: ENACTIVE REPRESENTATION) - learning to ride a bike or swim - once you learn it you don't unlearn it. or how I do the graphs with the students out on the lawn - where they are the points on the line and they have to figure out their y coordinate and move to the correct place to form the line.
- imagery and perception (ie: ICONIC REPRESENTATION) - representing events using images, maps, diagrams. Octagon = stop, triangle = yield, clock represents time - numbers represent time - hours, minutes and seconds.
- language and reason (ie: SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION) - represent mental and physical things using symbols - speech, writing, mathematics.
Piaget : is the learner ready for the learning task? Does the learner's method of understanding the world compatible with the learning task?
Bruner : is learning task represented in a way that is compatible with the learner's mode of representing the world.
Discovery Learner : an expectation of finding regularities and relationships in the environment - he did not beleive this was the usual in classrooms.
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