TY - BOOK AU - Bruner, Jerome S. TI - Toward a Theory of Instruction SN - 674897005 U1 - 371.102 B895t PY - 1971/// CY - Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge KW - Education Philosophy KW - Education -- Philosophy -- 1965- KW - Teaching Philosophy N2 - Instruction is an effort to assist or to shape growth. In devising instruction for the young, one would be ill advised indeed to ignore what is known about growth, its constraints and opportunities. And a theory of instruction - and this book is a series of exercises in such a theory - is in effect a theory of how growth and development are assisted by diverse means ER -