Jerome Bruner

Thinkers1915 to 2016Cognitive psychologist

Works

  • The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1976

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American psychologist who made major contributions to cognitive psychology and to learning theory in education. With David Wood and Gail Ross he introduced the term scaffolding for the support a tutor gives a learner and withdraws as the learner gains control of the task.

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