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This chapter describes Bruner’s educational theory in the early years of his career (roughly in the 1960s and the 1970s). I will discuss some of his famous concepts and the practical applications of his theory.
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See Harvard University Press webpage (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/).
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Thus, the National Defense Education Act was signed into law in September 1958, and later, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965. Bruner himself mentions “a long-range crisis in national security, a crisis whose resolution will depend upon a well-educated citizenry” (1960, p. 1).
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For example, Maxine Greene (1995) says, “To call for imaginative capacity is to work for the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise” (p. 19).
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Takaya, K. (2013). Learning by Discovery. In: Jerome Bruner. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6781-2_3
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