Jerome Bruner

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1. Jerome Bruner

   Author of Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures), The Culture of Education, Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life

2. John Dewey

   Author of Art as Experience, Democracy And Education, Experience and Nature

3. Howard Gardner

   Author of The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, The Mind's New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution, Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand

4. Paulo Freire

   Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Education for Critical Consciousness, Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach With New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg Expanded Edition

5. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience

6. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of Knowledge and Human Interests, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (The Theory of Communicative Act, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeworld and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason

7. Alfred North Whitehead

   Author of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, Aims of Education

8. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics), Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics.

9. Richard J. Bernstein

   Author of Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis, The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory

10. Theodore R. Sizer

    Author of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School, Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School

11. Herbert R. Kohl

    Author of 36 Children, "I Won't Learn from You": And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, On Teaching

12. Barbara Rogoff

    Author of Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context, The Cultural Nature of Human Development

13. Lev Semenovich Vygotsky

    Author of Thought and Language - Revised Edition, Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes

14. Stephen Edelston Toulmin

    Author of Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction, Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry into the Aims of Science

15. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective, Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation

16. Michael Polanyi

    Author of Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, The Tacit Dimension, Study of Man

17. Merlin Donald

    Author of Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition, A mind so rare

18. Donald A. Schon

    Author of The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, Educating the Reflective Practitioner: Toward a New Design for Teaching and Learning in the Professions (Higher Educatio

19. Robert F. Mager

    Author of Goal Analysis: How to Clarify Your Goals So You Can Actually Achieve Them, Developing attitude toward learning

20. Ned Block

    Author of Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, Volume I (Readings in Philosophy of Psychology), Imagery (Bradford Books)