Reviews for The culture of education

The average rating for The culture of education based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-19 00:00:00 Henryk Boczar I'm not sure why anyone would pick this book up unless they are researching Social Reconstruction Ideology or the psychology of qualitative/narrative versus quantitative research. Bruner spends a lot of time defending the importance of culture when interpretting and conveying meaning. Although he tries to conceptualize his stance in a way that the "everyman" can understand, there were several passages that were simply over my head. All in all, however, his argument in a nut shell is that culture plays an integral role in our knowledge, intelligence, perception, and reactions. He says that we cannot have scientific "absolutes" without taking all of the factors into consideration. In fact, he puts the two mindsets into separate categories of computationalism and culturalism. Computationalism: 1. orderly 2. linear, sequencial 3.objective 4. unbias 5. concrete knowledge (pi=3.14, or whatever) Culturalism 1. relies on meaning making 2. fluid/evolving 3. subjective 4. man-man 5. social 6. ambiguity 7. bia Bruner explains that culurualism is messy, which is why computationaists resist its importance; however, he explains throughout the text its importance to provide a holistic view of a topic.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-18 00:00:00 W Gary Mcguire A great book on education written in a beautiful language Bruner is well-known for.