Relevance Of Education

by Jerome Bruner

Since education takes place under conditions imposed by a technological society, Professor Bruner maintains that it is not enough to attempt reform through minor curriculum revisions. The program that fails to set knowledge within the context of action must be replaced. And to be truly relevant to our social needs, the scope of education must be extended toward overcoming the severe handicaps faced by children from impoverished areas.

Genres: Education, Philosophy

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 1971

About the author

Jerome Seymour Bruner, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1941; B.A., Duke University, 1937), was an psychologist predominately in the fields of developmental, educational, and legal psychology, and was one of the pioneers of the cognitive psychology movement in the United States. During World War II, Bruner served on the Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force Europe committee under Eisenhower, researching social psychological phenomena.