The Process of Education

Bruner, J. S. (1960). The Process of Education. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1960

Link

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674710016

Cited from

computer_science, education_pedagogy, human_computer_interaction, literature_literary_theory

Cited by

6 citations across 6 artifacts.

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Primes

• Constructivist Learning
  • The theory draws from developmental psychology (Piaget's assimilation and accommodation), sociocultural learning (Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, articulated in Mind in Society, Vygotsky 1978), cognitive apprenticeship (Bruner's scaffolding, developed in The Process of Education, Bruner 1960),

    This sourceArgues any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form at any stage and introduces the spiral curriculum (inline, Core Idea — link added; see prose-overreach flag re: 'scaffolding').

• Denormalization
  • Legal drafting and curriculum. Statutes choose between inline restatement of cross-referenced definitions (denormalized, faster to read in isolation, harder to amend cleanly) and pure reference; spiral curricula reintroduce earlier concepts in later units, giving local refreshers at the cost of bulk and version drift.

    This sourceIntroduces the spiral curriculum, in which key concepts are deliberately revisited and restated in later units — the educational instance of denormalized inline restatement against a canonical first treatment.

• Fabula And Syuzhet
  • Spiral curricula, motivating problems, and just-in-time formalism are syuzhet interventions on a fixed subject chronology.

    This sourceIntroduces the spiral curriculum: teaching order is a separable design object from the subject's logical structure, revisited at increasing depth.

• Progressive Disclosure
  • Teaching. Spiral curricula that introduce a concept in simplified form, return to it with added structure, and return again with full formal apparatus — the same idea told at successively greater depth.

    This sourceIntroduces the spiral curriculum — revisiting a concept at successively greater depth — the pedagogical instance of staged revelation.

Domain-specific

• Spiral approach
  • The entry records a descriptive analytical identity; practical use requires the governing domain's evidence, standards, and safety obligations.

Mechanisms

• Curriculum Level Progression
  • Jerome Bruner's spiral curriculum is the classic articulation — revisiting the same ideas at rising levels of sophistication.

    This sourceIt is the pedagogical statement of "provisional level, later refined."

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