La cultura dell'educazione

by Jerome Bruner, Lucia Cornalba (Translator)

Che cosa chiediamo alla scuola? Che semplicemente riproduca la cultura, ovvero la condivisione sociale del gusto e dei saperi, e uniformi i giovani a uno stesso stile? Oppure le chiediamo di dedicarsi all'ideale di preparare i giovani ad affrontare il mondo in evoluzione che dovranno abitare, senza sapere come esso sarà e cosa richiederà loro? Nell'affrontare il problema del'educazione oggi, Bruner parte dalla questione fondamentale del funzionamento della mente, con i suoi vari modelli, poiché l'educazione non riguarda solo problemi scolastici tradizionali, ma è invece strettamente connessa con il particolare contesto culturale.

Genres: Education, Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Science

233 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist predominately in the fields of developmental, educational, and legal psychology, and is one of the pioneers of the cognitive psychology movement in the United States. He is a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received his B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. 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.

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not sure why anyone would pick this book up unless they are researching Social Reconstruction Ideology or the psychology of qualitative/narrative versus quantitative research. Bruner spends a lot of time defending the importance of culture when interpretting and conveying meaning. Although he tries to conceptualize his stance in a way that the "everyman" can understand, there were several passages that were simply over my head. All in all, however, his argument in a nut shell is that culture plays an integral role in our knowledge, intelligence, perception, and reactions. He says that we cannot have scientific "absolutes" without taking all of the factors into consideration. In fact, he puts the two mindsets into separate categories of computationalism and culturalism.

Computationalism:
1. orderly
2. linear, sequencial
3.objective
4. unbias
5. concrete knowledge (pi=3.14, or whatever)

Culturalism
1. relies on meaning making
2. fluid/evolving
3. subjective
4. man-man
5. social
6. ambiguity
7. bia

Bruner explains that culurualism is messy, which is why computationaists resist its importance; however, he explains throughout the text its importance to provide a holistic view of a topic.

[خالد عبد الرحمن العوض · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book on education written in a beautiful language Bruner is well-known for.

[Vance J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bruner warns early that this is not an education-education book, but there is good stuff here. His thesis: education has a distinct cultural basis, and we can’t ignore the prevailing culture when educating.

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book shows a collection of essays were written by academics. I find it a nice in which teachers remember their steps in establishing their career.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this book represents the worst kind of academic reading, by the end of it Bruner makes several strong points.

[Stephen Bigger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Old study by an outstanding scholar - but not his best work.

[Amanda Harrison]

Read most of it, not going to finish