What are Bruners key concepts?
(Driscoll, 2000) • Three Modes of presenting understanding • Enactive representation, a mode of representing past events through appropriate motor responses • Iconic representation, which enables the perceiver to “summarize events by organization of percepts and of images • Symbolic representation, “a symbol system which represents things by design features that can be arbitrary and remote, e.g. language • Different from a fixed sequence of developmental stages, Bruner emphasizes the influences from the environment on amplification of the internal capabilities that learners possess. Bruner’s readiness Piaget’s readiness Ausubel’s readiness Readiness of the subject matter for the learner: how to match instruction to the child’s dominant mode of thinking Cognitive readiness of the learner to understand the logical operations in a subject matter Appropriateness in terms of the child’s prior knowledge, i.e. what she knows and how she structure that knowledge in memory Different from Piaget
