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Acts of Meaning
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0674003616 (0-674-00361-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor; " has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. [via]
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- Acts of Meaning: ISBN 0674003608 (0-674-00360-8)
  Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
- Acts of Meaning: ISBN 0674003616 (0-674-00361-6)
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0674003667 (0-674-00366-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life--those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind--a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible historical accounts. Bruner calls it the "narrative mode," and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self.
Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind's other side in his justly admired book On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind's narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works.
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- Actual Minds, Possible Worlds: ISBN 0674003659 (0-674-00365-9)
  Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
- Actual Minds, Possible Worlds: ISBN 0674003667 (0-674-00366-7)
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0198575114 (0-19-857511-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR

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- Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language: ISBN 0393953459 (0-393-95345-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language: ISBN 0198575114 (0-19-857511-4)
  Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language
by Rita Watson, Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0393017532 (0-393-01753-2)
Hardcover, W.W. Norton

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Culture of Education
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0674179536 (0-674-17953-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture--not just its more formal arts and sciences, but its ways of perceiving, thinking, feeling, and carrying out discourse. By examining both educational practice and educational theory, Bruner explores new and rich ways of approaching many of the classical problems that perplex educators.
Education, Bruner reminds us, cannot be reduced to mere information processing, sorting knowledge into categories. Its objective is to help learners construct meanings, not simply to manage information. Meaning making requires an understanding of the ways of one's culture--whether the subject in question is social studies, literature, or science. The Culture of Education makes a forceful case for the importance of narrative as an instrument of meaning making. An embodiment of culture, narrative permits us to understand the present, the past, and the humanly possible in a uniquely human way.
Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend. Educators, psychologists, and students of mind and culture will find in this volume an unsettling criticism that challenges our current conventional practices--as well as a wise vision that charts a direction for the future.
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- Culture of Education: ISBN 0674179528 (0-674-17952-8)
  Hardcover, Harvard University Press
- The Culture of Education: ISBN 0674179536 (0-674-17953-6)
  Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
Making Sense: The Child's Construction of the World
by Jerome Bruner , Helen Haste

ISBN 0415051622 (0-415-05162-2)
Softcover, Routledge

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A highly topical volume which builds on currently emerging themes in the study of child development. [via]
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Red Dust on the Green Leaves
by John Gay, Jerome Bruner , Harrison Owen

ISBN 0933662548 (0-933662-54-8)
Softcover, Intercultural Pr

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Red Dust on the Green Leaves is the first in a series of books about of two boys growing to manhood in Liberia. One follows the white man's ways; the other immerses himself in his indigenous culture. It is about the clash of the modern and traditional. This book for the the Liberian experience is as important as the classic by Chinua Achebe "Things Fall Apart." [via]
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Toward a Theory of Instruction
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0674897005 (0-674-89700-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Well-Ordered Thing
by Jerome Bruner

ISBN 0465027768 (0-465-02776-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group

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- Well-Ordered Thing: ISBN 0465027768 (0-465-02776-8)
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