1969 Fredericton Convocation
Bruner, Jerome Seymour
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: MacNutt, W. Stewart
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L to R: Sir Max Aitken, Jerome Seymour Bruner
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Source: UA PC-5 no.11(6); Photo by Stone's Studio
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1969
JEROME SEYMOUR BRUNER
to be Doctor of Laws
A graduate of Duke and Harvard Universities, Dr. Bruner performed distinguished service during the Second World War for the United States Office of War Information, the Department of State and the Supreme Head-quarters Allied Expeditionary Force. He was led through this work increasingly into the field of social psychology, and returned to Harvard in 1945 as Lecturer in Psychology, rising rapidly to a full professorship in 1952.
In 1960 he helped found the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Harvard. The outstanding place he came to occupy in his field and profession was predictable from the facts of his appointment as a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1951-1952, and of his award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955-56 at Cambridge. While his early work was largely in the field of perception and learning, he came in due course to a concern for the study of development in children, and to a parallel interest in the nature of the educational process. He is the author of a wide range of publications in these fields.
A marked feature of his career is the encouragement and guidance he has given others, and this is reflected in several noteworthy collaborations, as in the works "A Study of Thinking", and "Opinion and Personality", to name only two. With all his other activities he found time for continued public service, as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Education, the White House Conference on Civil Rights and in many other capacities. Recognition of his outstanding merit came in 1964 with his election to the Presidency of the American Psychological Association.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
JEROME SEYMOUR BRUNER
to be Doctor of Laws
A graduate of Duke and Harvard Universities, Dr. Bruner performed distinguished service during the Second World War for the United States Office of War Information, the Department of State and the Supreme Head-quarters Allied Expeditionary Force. He was led through this work increasingly into the field of social psychology, and returned to Harvard in 1945 as Lecturer in Psychology, rising rapidly to a full professorship in 1952.
In 1960 he helped found the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Harvard. The outstanding place he came to occupy in his field and profession was predictable from the facts of his appointment as a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1951-1952, and of his award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955-56 at Cambridge. While his early work was largely in the field of perception and learning, he came in due course to a concern for the study of development in children, and to a parallel interest in the nature of the educational process. He is the author of a wide range of publications in these fields.
A marked feature of his career is the encouragement and guidance he has given others, and this is reflected in several noteworthy collaborations, as in the works "A Study of Thinking", and "Opinion and Personality", to name only two. With all his other activities he found time for continued public service, as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Education, the White House Conference on Civil Rights and in many other capacities. Recognition of his outstanding merit came in 1964 with his election to the Presidency of the American Psychological Association.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 1
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