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Jerome Bruner’s
Discovery
Learning MARK DANIEL R. PEDONG, LPT
FACULTY, ASIAN DEV’T FOUNDATION
COLLEGE INC.
UEP – MAIN CAMPUS
 JEROME BRUNER

 Born: October 01, 1915

 Attended Duke University & Harvard
 Social Psychologist for U.SS AI
during WWII
 Harvard Professor of psychology in
1947
 Worked with Leo Postman on
influences of perception during the
1940’s
 Began focusing on US education on
the late 1950’s
 Discovery Learning

It is an active process of inquiry-based

instruction that encourages learners to
build on prior knowledge through
experience and to search for new
information and relationships based on
their interests.
The teacher should facilitate the learning
by process of developing lessons that
provide the learner with information they
need without organizing it for them.
 Principles of Discovery
Learning

Instructors should guide and motivate

learners to seek for solutions by
combining existing and newly acquired
information and simplifying knowledge.

Problem Solving
 Principles of Discovery
Learning

Instructors should allow learners to work

either alone or with others , and learn at
their own pace.

Learner
Management
 Principles of Discovery
Learning

Instructors should teach learners how to

combine prior knowledge with new, and
encourage them to connect to the real
world.

Integrating and Connecting

 Principles of Discovery
Learning

It is a process-oriented and not content-

oriented, and is based on the assumption
that learning is not a mere set of facts.

Information Analysis and

Interpretation
 Principles of Discovery
Learning

It does not focus on finding the right end

result, but the new things we discover in the
process.

- Instructor’s responsibility to provide

feedback, since without it learning is
incomplete. Failure and Feedback
 Types of Discovery
Learning

Experiment
 Types of Discovery
Learning

Exploration
 Types of Discovery
Learning

Simulation – Based
Learning
 Types of Discovery
Learning

Problem– Based
Learning
 Types of Discovery
Learning

Inquiry– Based
Learning
 Advantages of Discovery
Learning

• It encourages motivation, active involvement, and creativity

• It can be adjusted to the learner’s pace
• It promotes autonomy and independence
• It ensures higher levels of retention
 Disadvantages of Discovery Learning

• It needs a solid framework, because the endless wandering and seeking

for answers might be confusing.

• It shouldn’t be used as a main instruction method, because it has

limitations in practice and might produce inadequate education.
 Disadvantages of Discovery Learning

• It rejects the idea that there are significant skills and knowledge that all
learners should need to learn.

• Instructors need to be well prepared and anticipate the questions they may
receive, and be able to provide the right answers or guidelines
 Knowledge Test
Identification

_____1. He introduced the Discovery Learning in the 1960’s.

_____2. This principle allows learners to work either alone or with others, and learn at
their own pace.
_____3. It is a principle that allows learners to analyse and interpret information, rather
than memorize the correct answer.
_____4. He said that teachers serve as facilitators who create lessons and training
materials that provide the necessary structure and basic information.
_____5. This learning theory allows learners to draw their past experiences and existing
knowledge to discover facts and relationships.

Enumeration
5 Principles of Discovery Learning
 Knowledge Test Answers Key
Identification
1. Jerome Bruner
2. Learner Management
3. Information Analysis and Interpretation
4. Jerome Bruner
5. Discovery Learning
Enumeration
6. Problem Solving
7. Learner Management
8. Integrating and Connecting
9. Information Analysis and Interpretation
10. Failure and Feedback
 “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing
it is stupid.”

-Albert Einstein