Bruner

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Bruner

• Constructivist Theorist
• Instructional Support for Development

Bruner Group Madlyn Dashiell Amanda Shane
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Cognitive Learning

• Children learn through personal discovery and
  interaction.
• Children learn and retain knowledge more
  effectively through interaction within their
  environment.
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The Teachers Role in Bruners Theory

• Teaching is an integral/ interactive role, with
  less emphasis on memorization of facts, with
  focus on the connections the child makes
  themselves.
• Bruner uses a technique called a Spiral
  Curriculum

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Spiral Curriculum

• Defined as A curriculum as it develops should
  revisit this basic ideas repeatedly, building
  upon them until the student has grasped the full
  formal apparatus that goes with them.
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• As the students masters a concept it acts as a
  building block for the next lesson.
• Example The Alphabet, and later forming words
  and sentences.

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Applications

• Children are life-long learners into adulthood
  and beyond.

Human beings, by their nature, are social and
are social learners from infancy. During infancy
children develop a relationship, through
communication of mutual benefits.
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• In addition to the Spiral Curriculum, Bruner
  emphasizes Discovery Learning. A concept s