Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]

Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)

Name: Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour) (Interviewee)
Format: oral histories
Date: 1999
Collection Name: Carnegie Corporation project. Part 2
Abstract: Establishment of Center for Cognitive Studies [Center] at Harvard University through Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie] grant; faculty perception of Center's activities; explanation of Center's research aims; emphasis on pedagogy by research center's leadership; close professional relationships with other researchers receiving Carnegie funding; Center's research topics during first five years: relationship between language and thought, visual perception, cognitive development; publication of Studies in Cognitive Growth; application process for Carnegie grant renewal; Carnegie responsiveness to changes in Center's financial needs; Center's later years: creation of a general education curriculum in cognitive psychology, research on cultural deprivation and early childhood development; implementation of experimental preschool program in Italy; role of Carnegie in fostering community education initiatives

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