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...juxtaposition. Their books represent no less than the culminations in educational thought by two mutually exclusive and often antagonistic groups of writers, groups with distinct (if not antithetical) styles, politics, and influences. The fist is the large body of professional academics, mainly psychologists like Jones and Harvard's Jerome Bruner, who act as consulting experts and planners for the public school system. The other group includes a wide range of radical or "romantic" critics-maverick academics (Goodman), teachers (John Hoh, Herbert Kohl), technological utopians (George Leonard), and others. Among these must be included Dennison, formerly a psychotherapist, then a teacher...
Actually, Jones's book is itself a rather long footnote to the educational psychology of Bruner. America's pre-eminent educationist. Fantasy and Feeling in Education purports to be nothing more than a theoretical and practical complement to Bruner's pioneering Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966). Over and over Jones says that it is not his fiend and former colleague's "specific suggestions toward a theory of instruction, nor the specific prescriptions for educational reform that have been derived from these suggestions, with which I have taken exception. Only their exclusivism...
...painstaking critque of Bruner's specific theorems and prescriptions, Jones complains, rightly enough, that they comprise an exclusively cognitive and behavioristic conception of education. He responds with theoretical formulations on the engagement of the child's affect and imagination in intellectual learning-that is, the cultivation of fantasy and feeling for the purpose of imbuing curricular issues with personal significance." but explicitly not for any therapeutic or clinical purpose. In this way he integrates a comprehensive knowledge of clinical psychology with Bruner's propositions. The result is a "more complete" theory of instruction which, in class room application, should "deal...
...Susan B. Carey, a graduate student in Psychology, is helping Bruner with the selection. Miss Carey said that the three married couples were chosen so that both the husband and the wife would be tutors...
Their fields include Psychology, Philosophy, Education, and History and Literature. One of the six works outside the University. Miss Carey said that Bruner is interested in getting non-academic people into the House...