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Toward a theory of instruction

Jerome S. Bruner (Author)
Instruction is an effort to assist or to shape growth. In devising instruction for the young, one would be ill advised indeed to ignore what is known about growth, its constraints and opportunities. And a theory of instruction - and this book is a series of exercises in such a theory - is in effect a theory of how growth and development are assisted by diverse means
Print Book, English, 1966
Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1966
x, 176 pages ; 21 cm
9780674897007, 9780674897014, 0674897005, 0674897013
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Patterns of growth
Education as social invention
Notes on a theory of instruction
Man: a course of study
Teaching a native language
The will to learn
On coping and defending
A retrospect on making and judging