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Jerome Bruner
He was born in 1915, and is still alive till this day (and occasionally teaching at age 100!). Bruner proposed that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition in general and of language in particular. He emphasized that children learn language in order to communicate, and, at the same time, they also learn the linguistic code. Meaningful language is acquired in the context of meaningful parent-infant interaction, learning “scaffolded” or supported by the child’s Language Acquisition Support System (LASS). One of the works for which he is best known is “The Process of Education” in which he argues for “models in the head.” It also talks about how learning is done by firsthand, hands-on experiences. He also believed that humans progress through three levels of intelligent development. First the Enactive level- direct manipulation of objects, then there is the Iconic level- this is mental images but without direct manipulation and the last Symbolic level- manipulation of symbols and no longer with mental images.
 * “We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”

4 Benefits of Discovery Learning


 * 1) Focuses on problem solving
 * 2) Motivation is shifted to intrinsic rewards
 * 3) Students will become independent learners
 * 4) Information will be fully synthesized