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Bruner - Learning Theory in Education | Simply Psychology

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Bruner (1966) was concerned with how knowledge is represented and organized through different modes of thinking (or representation).

Jerome Bruner believed that children construct knowledge and meaning through active experience with the world around them. He emphasized the role of culture and language in cognitive development, which occurs in a spiral fashion with children revisiting basic concepts at increasing levels of complexity and abstraction. Key Takeaways Constructive Learning: Bruner argued that learning is an active, constructive process where students don’t passively receive information but actively transform and internalize it. This means effective teaching requires presenting material in a way that allows

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