Bruner, Jerome

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Jerome Bruner (1915 – 2016) was a- very influential American psychologist and educational theorist. Bruner was largely responsible for bring in the work of Vygotsky to wide attention in the 'West'. Bruner introduced the notion of the 'spiral curriculum'.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.