Jerome S Bruner
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the onset of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. government feared its educational system was slipping behind the Soviet Union's. A controversial science initiative grew out of its response, Man: A Course of Study, a program with the ambitious goal of teaching American children what it was to be human.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.
