CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Bruner’s Theory learners go from a tangible, action-oriented stage of learning to a symbolic and abstract stage of learning. By using this theory, learners can build new knowledge upon knowledge they’ve previously learned. This can lead to a better understanding of what students are learning.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jerome Bruner was a leader of the Cognitive Revolution (pdf) that ended the reign of behaviorism in American psychological research and put cognition at the center of the field. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1941, and returned to lecture at Harvard in 1945, after serving in the U.S. Army’s Intelligence Corps.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bruner believed that the most effective way to develop a coding system is to discover it rather than being told by the teacher. The concept of discovery learning implies that students construct their own knowledge for themselves (also known as a constructivist approach).

Detailed explanation-4: -Bruner’s theory of scaffolding emerged around 1976 as a part of social constructivist theory, and was particularly influenced by the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Vygotsky argued that we learn best in a social environment, where we construct meaning through interaction with others.