Bruner resolved to study what he called “cognitive psychology”—how people think and reason, not just how they react and respond. For education, especially, the implications were enormous.

Recent views of learning and cognition are contrasted with the cognitive learning theories of the late 1950s and early 1960s. In particular, Bruner's ideas are contrasted with current theoretical ...

The educational philosophies of John Dewey, Edgar Dale, and Jerome Bruner asserted that experience is essential to the learning process. Dewey emphasized that the quality and the continuity of the ...