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Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ) is one of the best known and influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He was one of the key figures in the so called `cognitive revolution` -- but it is the field of education that his influence has been especially felt. His books The Process of Education and Towards a Theory of Instruction have been widely read and become recognized as classics, and his work on the social studies programme -- Man: A Course of Study (MACOS) -- in the mid-1960s is a landmark in curriculum development. More recently Bruner has come to be critical of the `cognitive revolution` and has looked to the building of a cultural psychology that takes proper account of the historical and social context of participants. In his 1996 book The Culture of Education these arguments were developed with respect to schooling (and education more generally). `How one conceives of education`, he wrote, `we have finally come to recognize, is a function of how one conceives of the culture and its aims, professed and otherwise` (Bruner 1996: ix-x).
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Jerome S. Bruner has had a profound effect on education -- and upon those researchers and students he has worked with. Howard Gardner has commented:
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