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Jerome S. Bruner, Master of Currier House, has already selected the three married couples who will be tutors in the new House when it opens next Fall. He is now interviewing applicants for the other eight tutor positions...
...Winslow R. Briggs, Biology; Paul M. Doty, Biochemistry; Nicholas Bloemberger, Dept. of Engineering and Applied Physics (DEAP); Andrew M. Gleason, Mathematics; Henry Ehrenreich, DEAP; Edwin E. Moise, Mathematics; Edgar B. Wilson, Chemistry; Bruce Chalmers, DEAP; George Wald, Biology; Elias J. Corey, Chemistry; Charles W. Burnham, Geological Science; Jerome S. Bruner, Psychology; Gerald Holton, Physics...
...Fantastic Species. Such intriguing seminars for fifth-graders are now commonplace in schools using an experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology at Harvard, Asen Balikci, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, and Peter B. Dow of Education Development Center Inc., the nonprofit Cambridge firm that produces the course materials. "We're trying to present a point of view," says Bruner. "We want to give children some appreciation of what...
...Bruner's goals is to teach children "the general idea of what's meant by adaptability: how a culture develops as a way of adapting to the environment." Bruner's big goal, though, is to get the youngsters to think about the nature of man and try to answer three basic questions: "What is human about human beings? How did they get that way? How can they be made more so?" The children's response has been extremely enthusiastic. In a generally glowing evaluation of the course, the Harvard School of Education praised the "classroom climate...
...Problem of Violence. As Bruner sees it, the problems of the course fascinate children because they are universal and immediate. "A generation ago, the problem for kids was sex," he says. "For this generation, it's violence." Indeed, the course seems to work particularly well in ghetto schools. Observes Dow: "Urban kids are much more attuned to questions of survival and not so frightened by some of the gutsier issues like death and reproduction." Few parents have objected to the course, even though it contains rather fundamental information on mating habits and some of the bloodiest film imaginable...