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Jerome Bruner

Bruner affirms that development depends on concrete experiences, that's why those experiences should be emphasized during people's childhood, he believes that what determines the level of intellectual growth is the level of exposure the children has to learning experiences. Knowledge and abilities are not always determined by age but by individual exposure to information. According to David Kolba a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University, learners perceive and process information in a continuum from concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation: Concrete experience: being involved in a new experience.Children nowadays are exposed to all kind of information, coming from different sources like internet, television, etc. On the other hand, the environment and the relationship that the individuals have influence their personal maturity and intelectual level.

Bruner affirms that any subject can be thought effectively in intellectually honest form, to any child at any stage of development, on the contrary, Piaget believes that children are ready to acquire knowledge depending of their level of maturity and intelectual development, and that maturity comes with age ( Paiget's four stages of Intelectual/Cognitive Development). Even if he affirms that his stages are not abrupt divisions but that those behaviors develop all the time, he makes an emphasis on the fact that learning responses depend on