Jerome Seymour Bruner

1. Jerome Seymour Bruner
GROUP 4
SCI.ED 5
(T.F. 3:00-
4:30)

2. BIOGRAPHY :
 born on October 1, 1915 in New York, to Herman
and Rose Bruner, who emigrated from Poland.
 He received a:
Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (1937)
from Duke University.
 Bruner went on to earn:
Master's Degree in Psychology (1939) and
Doctorate in Psychology (1941) from Harvard
University.

3. Bruner has written about the course of
cognitive development in which a child
progressively develops three modes of
representation: enactive, iconic, and symbolic.

4. COGNITIVE
THEORY

5. He identified that sensation and perception
are active processes rather than passive.
The obvious result of cognitive
development is thinking.
He was influenced by Piaget's ideas about
cognitive development in children.

6. His early work focused on the impact of needs,
motivations, & expectations (“mental sets”) and their
influence on perception.
He also looked at the role of strategies in the
process of human categorization, and development
of human cognition.
He presented the point of view that children are
active problem-solvers and capable of exploring
“difficult subjects”.

7. He took concern in effective ways of
education and proper creation of curriculum on
the basis of constructivism theory.
INTELLIGENT TUTORINGSYSTEM:
- these system are able to interpret complex
student responses and can learn as they operate

8. CONSTRUCTIVISM
is a broad conceptual framework
with numerous perspectives, and Bruner's is
only one.

9. Bruner's theoretical framework is based on
the theme that learners construct new ideas or
concepts based upon existing knowledge.
Facets of the process include selection and
transformation of information, decision making,
generating hypotheses, and making meaning
from information and experiences.

10. The main idea of Bruner’s theory is that
education is active process in which pupil alone
constructs new notions and conceptions in
compliance with his existing knowledge and/or
experience.

12. The task of teacher is to motivate pupils to
such construction.
Teacher has to transform the knowledge
pupils should know so that they are proper
for children’s abilities of learning.
In this direction Bruner focuses attention
on games.
He highlighted children’s ability to
concentrate them during the game.

13. This concentration is aimed on games’ process,
its elements and necessary information.
So game is, in accordance with Bruner, suitable
method of education.
He proposed development of children’s logical
thinking by the means of game during the first years
of school education.

14. Using of games in education significantly
expanded by the development of pedagogic at the
end of the 19th and in the 20th century.
Active, creative and motivational form of
education came to the top.

15. QUIZ !!

16. 1. What is the most
advanced forms of
cognitive theory based
games ?

17. 2. What is this theory
that focuses on
constructing rather than
acquiring?

18. 3. Whom was Bruner
influenced in cognitive
development of the
child?

19. 4. What is the
result of cognitive
development?

20. 5. Where does Bruner
earn his Doctorate
and Masters Degree
in Psychology ?

21. THANK
YOU !!
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