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16%OFFJerome S. Bruner - On Knowing - 9780674635258 - V9780674635258
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On Knowing

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Description for On Knowing paperback. Num Pages: 207 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 231.

The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know—that is, to teach; and how our conception of reality affects our actions and is modified by them.

The striking and subtle discussions contained in On Knowing take on the core issues concerning man’s sense of self: creativity, the search for identity, the nature of aesthetic knowledge, myth, the learning process, and modern-day attitudes toward social controls, Freud, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674635258
SKU
V9780674635258
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About Jerome S. Bruner
Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.

Reviews for On Knowing
In this little book Jerome Bruner…has given us a thoroughly intelligent and, in the best sense, heterodox collection of essays on a number diverse topics… This book is exciting, not merely because of its method, but also because of the topics chosen for discussion. Bruner discusses education after Dewey, the teaching of mathematics, the human control of behavior, Freud—all right-hand ... Read more

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