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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Oxford University, England

    Jerome S. Bruner (Watts Professor of Psychology)

  2. Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, USA

    Jerome S. Bruner (Watts Professor of Psychology) & David R. Olson (Professor of Applied Psychology)

  3. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ont., Canada

    David R. Olson (Professor of Applied Psychology)

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Paper prepared for the 73rd Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education: D. R. Olson (ed.),Media and Symbols: the forms of expression, communication and education. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press (in press), and printed here with the permission of the editor.

His books include Toward a Theory of Instructionand The relevance of education.

Publications include Cognitive Development: the Child's Acquisition of Diagonality.

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Bruner, J.S., Olson, D.R. Learning through experience and learning through media. Prospects 3, 20–38 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02196942

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