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- Vol 3 RE: Chapter 1, App A
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cultural meaning-makingnarrative learninglearner agencyconstructivist pedagogymetacognitioninstitutional participationeducational identityBook Evidence summaryAt a glance
Bruner argues that education cannot be understood apart from culture because human minds develop through shared systems of meaning, language, narrative, tools, and social interaction.
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The essays challenge views of learning as the isolated acquisition of information and examine how schooling distributes agency, constructs identity, and inducts learners into ways of interpreting the world. Bruner develops postulates concerning perspective, constraints, constructivism, interaction, externalisation, instrumentalism, institutional life, identity, and narrative. He considers folk pedagogy, collaboration, metacognition, the teaching of the past, and the place of stories in organising experience. Education both reproduces culture and offers a forum for renegotiating it.
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For educators, the book supports treating learners as active meaning-makers, making assumptions and perspectives discussable, using dialogue and narrative, connecting school knowledge with cultural life, and recognising how institutional arrangements shape participation and possibility.
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