Bruner is famous for his outstanding contribution to education. He declared: "Any subject can effectively teach any child at any stage of development in an appropriate form of knowledge." This caused a curriculum reform movement in the United States.

Bruner attaches great importance to the great role of education in children's psychological development. He believes that children should learn the basic structure of subject knowledge; Education should promote the development of children's cognitive ability; Attach importance to children's early education; "Discovery" is the main learning method for children.

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Bruner believes that discovery learning has the following characteristics:

1, emphasizing the learning process

Bruner believes that students are active explorers in the teaching process. The role of teachers is to form a situation in which students can explore independently, rather than providing ready-made knowledge. We teach a subject, not to build a living small library, but to let students think for themselves and participate in the process of knowledge acquisition.

Cognition is a process, not a product. It can be seen that the main purpose of learning is not to remember what teachers and textbooks say, but to let students participate in the process of establishing the subject knowledge system. Therefore, Bruner emphasizes that students are not passive and passive recipients of knowledge, but active and active knowledge explorers.

2. Emphasize intuitive thinking.

Bruner's discovery method not only pays attention to the learning process, but also emphasizes the importance of students' intuitive thinking in learning. In his view, intuitive thinking is different from analytical thinking. It does not follow carefully defined steps, but takes jumps, jumps and shortcuts to think.

Whether in formal disciplines or in daily life, scientists and pupils need and can use intuitive thinking. The difference is only the degree, but the nature is the same.

Bruner believes that a large number of facts show that intuitive thinking is extremely important for scientific discovery activities. The formation process of intuitive thinking generally does not depend on oral information, especially on teachers' indicative language. The essence of intuitive thinking is image or imagery.

Therefore, teachers should help students form rich imagination in inquiry activities to prevent premature linguistization. Instead of instructing students how to do it, let them try and think while doing it.

3. Emphasize intrinsic motivation

In Bruner's view, under the general teaching conditions, students' learning motivation is often very chaotic. Some students seek good grades for some external motives, such as to get or avoid rewards or punishments from teachers and parents, or to compete with classmates. Bruner pays more attention to forming students' internal motivation, or transforming external motivation into internal motivation.

The discovery activity is helpful to stimulate students' curiosity. Students are easily driven by curiosity and show interest in exploring unknown results. So Bruner called curiosity "the prototype of students' internal motivation".

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