1. MODES OF COGNETTIVE DEVELOPMENT - (BRUNER)
JASINTHA MARY .D
BIO-SCIENCE

2. INTRODUCTION
Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology particularly focusing on child development.
Young children are not only growing physically during their childhood, but they are also growing mentally.
In other words cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand.

3. VARIOUS THEORISTS FOR COGNETIVE DEVELOPMENT
Jerome Bruner
Jean Piaget
Lev Vygotsky
John Dewey

4. Jerome Bruner Born – October 1 1915 Age - 94 Born in New York
Education
– PhD, Harvard, 1941 (psychology).
- BA, Duke university, 1937

5. Publications
- The culture of education, 1996
- Acts of meaning, 1991
- Actual minds, possible worlds, 1987
- The process of education, 1960.
He is a Cognitive Psychologist and also a Educational Psychologist.
Scaffolding theory.
Spiral curriculum.
Discovery learning.

6. Meaning of Bruner’s Theory
Cognitive development is the construction of thought process, including remembering, problem solving, and decision – making from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.

7. Definition of Bruner’s theory
Active process
Constructs new idea based upon existing knowledge
It includes transformation of information, Problem solving and Decision making.
It provides meaning and organization to experiences
It allows the individual to go beyond the information given

8. According to Bruner, learning is not simply a stimulus – response (S
According to Bruner, learning is not simply a stimulus – response (S.R) conditioning or reinforcement but rather a Cognitive process.

9. 3 Simultaneous Acts Acquisition of new knowledge
Transformation of knowledge
Checking the pertinence and adequacy of knowledge one has

10. And also Curiosity is the basic instinct possessed by every individual.
Conceptualization or categorization is the first major steps in process of learning.

11. The 3 modes of Cognitive Development
Enactive mode
Iconic mode
Symbolic mode

13. Enactive Mode
It is the representation of knowledge through action.

14. Iconic mode
At this stage the individual is able to think about the objects or events through his own mental images.

15. Symbolic mode
In this stage the individual starts using symbols in place of images.

16. A Theory of Instruction
According to Bruner, a theory of instruction, should take into account of the following things:
Nature of individual children.
Nature of knowledge to be received by the children.
Nature of the knowledge getting process.

17. 4 Major aspects of Process of Instruction
PREDISPOSITION TO LEARN: Before starting the process of teaching, the teacher should make all attempts to make the child willing and able to learn what he is going to experience through the given instruction.

18. STRUCTURING THE KNOWLEDGE: Learning experiences to be given or contents to be taught should be so effectively structured that these enable the students to grasp and relate the knowledge as effective as possible.

19. SEQUENCING OF THE PRESENTED MATERIAL:
A teacher should take care of the proper and effective sequencing of the subject matter and learning experiences to be given to his students.

20. PROVIDING DUE REINFORCEMENT:
Teacher should pay due consideration to the mechanism of proper reinforcement in the process of reinforcement

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