The Process of Education

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses.

Bruner’s foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source of insight into the goals and methods of the educational process.

• Experience And Education
• Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction
• The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto
• Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
• The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press)
• Toward a Theory of Instruction (Belknap Press)
• Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
• The Culture of Education
• Learning to Teach
• Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year