Jerome Bruner Developing a Sense of the Possible

Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ) is one of the best known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He has made significant contributions to cognitive psychology and educational theory.This book presents a brief introduction to Jerome Bruner’s

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Keiichi Takaya

Jerome Bruner Developing a Sense of the Possible

SpringerBriefs in Education Key Thinkers in Education

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Keiichi Takaya

Jerome Bruner Developing a Sense of the Possible

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Keiichi Takaya Faculty of Letters Kokugakuin University Tokyo Japan

ISSN 2211-937X ISSN 2211-9388  (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-6780-5 ISBN 978-94-007-6781-2  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6781-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London

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Acknowledgments

I thank Dr. Paul Gibbs of Middlesex University, the series editor for Springer Briefs on Key Thinkers in Education, for offering me this wonderful opportunity to write a book on Bruner. I also thank Bernadette Ohmer and Marianna Pascale for their excellent editorial work at Springer. An earlier version of Chap. 4 appeared in Interchange, Volume 39, Number 1 (2008) under the same title. I gratefully acknowledge Springer for granting me permission to use it in this book. I am most grateful to Dr. Kieran Egan of the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University for reading my manuscript carefully and giving me insightful comments and suggestions