Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who has made significant contributions to educational, cognitive, and developmental psychology. This article will focus on who Bruner is, his main theories are explained, as well as a comparison between Bruner and Piaget and the effectiveness of Bruner's theories in the classroom. Bruner was born and raised in New York City, Bruner graduated from high school in 1933 and continued his education. majoring in psychology at Duke University; earning an AB degree in 1937. Subsequently, Bruner pursued graduate study at Harvard University receiving his MA in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1941. Gardner (2001) noted, “Jerome Bruner has played a vital role in the educational discourse of our time: bringing the latest thinking in psychology to contemporary problems in society.” (page 94). In 1960 Bruner published "The Educational Process"; a seminal text that had a direct impact on politics in the United States, influencing the thinking and orientation of a large group of teachers and students. The main goal of this process is to present the topic effectively, not only for coverage but also for structure. Bruner (1960) focuses on 4 key themes that emerged during the process. The first theme is the importance of structure; a practical approach focusing on two different ways of learning. The first way of learning describes specific relevance to tasks that are very similar to those we originally learned to perform and the second is that early learning makes later performance more efficient through the transfer of principles and attitudes. The second theme is willingness to learn. This theme suggests that schools have wasted a great deal of time postponing the teaching of important areas... half of article... idge, Mass: Harvard University Press.Bruner, J.S. (1964) The Course of Cognitive Growth. 19, 1-15.Bruning, R.H. Schraw, G.J. & Ronning, R.R. (1999). Cognitive psychology and education (3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River. NJ: Prentice Hall.Byrnes, J.P. (1996). Cognitive development and learning in educational contexts. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.Driscoll, M.P. (2000) Learning Psychology for Education. (2nd ed.) Boston: Allyn and Bacon.Gardner, H (2001). "Jerome S. Bruner." Fifty modern thinkers on education. New York: Routledge.LeFrancois, G.R. (1999) Psychology for Teaching. (10th ed.) University of Alberta Wadsworth: Thomson Learning.Schunk, D.H. (2000) Theories of learning. An educational perspective. (3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.Wragg, T. (2004). An icon of the mind. Times Educational Supplement: London.