One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

and Ratner N. Value and need as organizing factors in perception. Meaningful language is acquired in the context of meaningful parent-infant interaction learning “scaffolded” or supported by the child’s Language Acquisition Support System (LASS).

A. from Harvard University in 1941. Jerome Seymour Bruner (born October 1 1915) is a psychologist who has made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology as well as to history and to the general philosophy of education.