Influential Individuals in Education:

Nel Noddings, Jerome Bruner,

and William Bennett

By

Bonnie Hansel

Joel Justice

Tambra Ragan

Linda Strasser

Beckie Costanzo

Lyndsie Moss

"The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter."

-Nel Noddings

Nel Noddings Born in 1929 Bachelor's degree in Math Masters degree in Math PhD in Educational Philosophy Worked in New Jersey Public Schools Taught at a number of UniversitiesReceived multiple awardsEthics of CareCaring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and

Moral Education

"We teach a subject not to produce little living libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think mathematically for himself, to consider matters as an historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge-getting. Knowing is a process not a product."

-Jerome Bruner

Jerome Bruner Born October 1, 1915

Went to college at Duke and Harvard

Worked for the United States Military as a social psychologist

Professor of Psychology at Harvard (1952-1972)

Professor at Oxford (1972-1979)

Became a faculty memeber of the School for Social Research in New York City in 1981.

Developed a theory of cognitive growth in children

Theory of Education

The Process of Education (1960)

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” -William Bennett

William Bennett

Born July 31, 1943

PhD in Political Philosophy

United States Secretary of Education 1985-1988

Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy 1988

Author, Speaker, Radio Host 2004

The Book of Virtues

ReferencesBruner, Jerome. The Process of Education. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard

University Press, 1960.

Smith, M. K. (2004) Nel Noddings, the ethics of care and education', the encyclopedia of informal education, www.infed.org/thinkers/noddings.htm.

Smith, M.K. (2002) 'Jerome S. Bruner and the process of education', the encyclopedia of informal education http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm.

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