# Jerome Bruner

> He rewired how we think about thinking itself — and then how we teach children to do it. Bruner's work made cognitive psychology a force in classrooms, arguing that learning is active construction, not passive absorption.

*American psychologist and scholar*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1915-10-01
- **Died:** 2016-06-05
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born October 1, 1915, Bruner took his BA from Duke in 1937 and a PhD from Harvard in 1941. He taught and researched at Harvard, Oxford, and NYU, building a career that spanned cognitive psychology and education theory. His central claim: the mind doesn't simply receive knowledge; it builds it, restructures it, discovers it. That idea reshaped how curricula were designed and how teachers understood their students' minds. A 2002 survey ranked him the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. He died June 5, 2016, after seven decades of arguing that learning is an act of invention.

## Fame
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## Topics
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