Jerome S. Bruner
Learning is an active making of meaning.
American cognitive and educational psychologist who emphasized meaning-making, discovery learning and representation.
Learning is an active process of constructing meaning.
Who they were
Jerome Bruner saw the learner as an active builder, not a passive vessel. He argued that we understand by discovering principles ourselves, that ideas can be represented through action, image or symbol, and that almost anything can be taught honestly at any age if returned to with growing depth.
Famous books
What they left on the shelf
Terms they cared about
Ideas worth knowing
Their techniques
How the work was done
Best known as a theorist — their ideas shaped the techniques of those who followed.
Their big idea
Discovery Learning
Jerome Bruner held that deep understanding comes from actively exploring and discovering principles rather than receiving facts passively, supported by a spiral curriculum that revisits core ideas at rising levels of complexity.
Questions in their spirit
What they’d ask you
Sit with one. Answer online, or in the app.
Carry the idea forward
Bruner — What they’d ask you
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.