Constructivism of bruner

Towards the end of the 1990s, Bruner became critical of the ‘cognitive revolution’ and looked to the building of a cultural psychology that took proper account of the historical and social context of participants

In his 1996 book, The Culture of Education, these arguments were developed with respect to schooling

Bruner’s thinking became increasingly influenced by Lev Vygotsky (see Chap

19) and he began to be critical of the intrapersonal focus he had taken, and the lack of attention paid to a social and political context (Smith, 2002 )

Social constructivism is seen as a sub-set of constructivism

Bruner’s constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition

Much of the theory is linked to child development research (especially Piaget )

The ideas outlined in Bruner (1960) originated from a conference focused on science and math learning