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College English Departments and Professional Efforts to Improve English Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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Jerome K. Bruner, the distinguished psychologist from Harvard who may presently be influencing American education more deeply than any other individual, recently asserted that this country is embarked on a permanent revolution in education based on a broad redefinition of the nature of the educational profession. This revolution in the educational Establishment is symbolized, says Bruner, by the presence of Nobel laureates in physics devoting their talents and energies to the devising of school curricula in science. Underlying the revolution is the assumption that “those who know a subject most deeply know best the great and simple structuring ideas in terms of which instruction must proceed.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1963

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Footnotes

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An address given at the Conference of Chairmen of English Departments, Washington, D.C., 29 December 1963.

References

1 Jerome Bruner, “The New Educational Technology,” The American Behavioral Scientist, vi (November 1962), 5.

2 S. A. Gleason, Jr., “What Is English?” College Composition and Communication, xiii (October 1962), 10.