Bruner

his theoretical position states that learning is an active process that learners constructnew ideas and concepts based on their current knowledge

this also is the underlying principle in the constructivism theory. studnets build their knowledge on their previous schema.

a cognitive structure will provide meaning and sturcture to infomation

it is encouraged to let the student discover principles for themselves

active dialog and a spiral organised curriculum will work so that the student is continulally learning

his ideas are based on catorgirsation, "To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize."


the narrative construction of reality!

1. 
   Narrative diachronicity: The notion that narratives take place over some sense of time.
   
2. Particularity: The idea that narratives deal with particular events, although some events may be left vague and general.
   
3. Intentional state entailment: The concept that characters within a narrative have "beliefs, desires, theories, values, and so on" (7).
   
4. Hermeneutic composability: The theory that narratives are that which can be interpreted in terms of their role as a selected series of events that constitute a "story." See also Hermeneutics
   
5. Canonicity and breach: The claim that stories are about something unusual happening that "breaches" the canonical (i.e. normal) state.
   
6. Referentiality: The principle that a story in some way references reality, although not in a direct way that offers verisimilitude.
   
7. Genericness: The flipside to particularity, this is the characteristic of narrative whereby the story can be classified as a genre.
   
8. Normativeness: The observation that narrative in some way supposes a claim about how one ought to act. This follows from canonicity and breach.
   
9. Context sensitivity and negotiability: Related to hermeneutic composability, this is the characteristic whereby narrative requires a negotiated role between author or text and reader, including the assigning of a context to the narrative, and ideas like suspension of disbelief.
   
10. Narrative accrual: Finally, the idea that stories are cumulative, that is, that new stories follow from older ones.