Bruner's

Constructivist
  Theory
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Reporters
Bruner's Constructivist theory reporters

John Robert Basalan Rosalie B. Abat

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Objectives:
- Explain the individual's ability and
development to represent knowledge
- Differentiate and discuss Bruner's main
concept of constructivism
- Explain how spiral curriculum works

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Who is Jerome Seymour Bruner

- One of the first proponents of

constructivism

- He is an American psychologist who made

significant contributions to human cognitive
psychology. 

- The culture of Education (1996), Acts of

meaning (1991), Actual minds, possible
worlds (1987), and The Process of Education
(1960)
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MAIN CONCEPT OF
CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY:
- Representation
- Spiral Curriculum
- Discovering learning
- Categorization
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 Bruner's Constructivist Theory

Bruner's theory on constructivism

encompasses the idea of learning
as an active process wherein
learners are able to form/construct
new ideas based on their current
and past knowledge.
1st concept Representation

Enactive (0 - 1)
- Children learn about
the world through Iconic (1 – 6) Symbolic (7 to up)
actions on physical - obtained - The learners have
objects and the through using developed the
outcomes of these models and ability to think
actions.  pictures. abstract terms. 
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Bruner's principle of instructions:

READINESS  SPIRAL GOING BEYOND

ORGANIZATION  THE INFORMATION
- Instruction must be GIVEN 
concerned with the - Instruction must be
experiences and structured so that it - Instruction should
contexts that make can be easily grasped be designed to
the student willing by the student facilitate extrapolation
and able to learn and or fill in the gaps
2nd concept Spiral Curriculum

Spiral curriculum 

- Refers to the idea of

revisiting basic ideas over
and over, building upon
them, and elaborating to
the level of full
understanding and
mastery. 
3rd Concept Discovery Learning

Discovery Learning ​
​
- The concept
of discovery learning
implies that students
construct their
knowledge
for themselves based
upon their current or
past knowledge. ​
MAJOR ASPECTS IN THE THEORY OF INSTRUCTION:

01 Predisposition to learn - "readiness for learning"

Structure of Knowledge - The ways in which

02 a body of knowledge can be structured so
that it can be most readily grasped by the
learner.

Effective Sequencing - Presentation of lessons in

03 increasing difficulty.

Reinforcement - Rewards and punishment that should

04 be selected and paced appropriately.
4th Concept What are the categorization

KINDS OF CATEGORIES:
Categorization 
1. Identity categories - Include objects based on
their attributes or features. 
- Bruner believed that
perception,
2. Equivalent categories - Provide rules for
conceptualization, learning, combining categories.
decision making and making
inferences all involved 3. Coding systems - Serves to recognize
organization. sensory input.
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