Education & Development
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
...research. Bruner, who died last year at the age of 100, was a professor at Harvard and then Oxford. He believed firmly that all children can thrive in their learning if provided with the right conditions. In the 1960s, he helped develop the US government-funded Head Start programme. The aim was to give equal learning opportunities to all pre-school children, especially...