1: Jerome Bruner: An Overview of Key Ideas

Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) was a philosopher and psychologist whose work spanned seven decades and many different disciplines including developmental, cognitive and cultural psychology, linguistics, law, literary theory, computer science, anthropology and, of course most famously, education. He was born blind and not able to see until after operations to remove cataracts when he was two years old. Perhaps this was the root of his lifelong quest to understand how we engage with, comprehend and mentally represent the world within the limited way in which we are able to perceive it. Speaking in an interview in 2008, he said:

Bruner was convinced that human beings create rather than discover truth and meaning, and he spent his whole life exploring how we construct these worldviews. The following sketch of Bruner's life is drawn from his autobiography, In Search of Mind (Bruner, 1983).