JEROME S. BRUNER

These Biographical Notes aim to provide the reader with a brief overview of the academic and geographical contexts in which Bruner has developed most of a work that constitutes, not only for psychologists and educators, an important reference for the second half of this century. The context is important to be able to understand the original character and the pleasure of the discovery that the construction of knowledge supposes, whether it is a child or a scientist who embarks on that adventure. And it is important to identify, in order to understand the different stretches or stages traveled, both the "allies" in each of these companies and the "opposites" whom it is intended to refute, more numerous, throughout such a long and fruitful intellectual trajectory. , which should be noted in these Notes. Finally, we allude to some peculiarity of his theory, in constant reformulation, and its relationship with others such as Piaget or Vygotsky, of which he has also been one of the greatest and best disseminators in the Anglo-Saxon world.