Introducing Bruner: A Guide for Practitioners and Students in Early Years Education

by Sandra Smidt

Sandra Smidt takes the reader on a journey through the key concepts of Jerome Bruner, a significant figure in the field of early education whose work has spanned almost a century. His wide-ranging and innovative principles of early learning and teaching are unpicked here using everyday language and the links between his ideas and those of other key thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are revealed.

Introducing Bruner is the companion volume to Introducing Vygotsky and is an invaluable work for anyone involved with children in the early years. The introduction of Bruner's key concepts is followed by discussion of the implications of these for teaching and learning. This accessible text is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from real-life early years settings and the concepts discussed






















The book also looks, crucially, at what those working or involved with young children can learn from Bruner, and includes a helpful glossary of terminology. This fascinating insight in to the life and work of a key figure in early years education is essential reading for anyone concerned with the learning and development of young children.

140 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Chris Malone · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful guide and reminder about Bruner, his life and his contribution to early years pedagogy, discovering how babies are capable of competencies, and young children are capable of abstract thinking. A helpful outline of the ways in which narrative & story making can be used as a cultural tool in research.