In this section, I will show in some detail that the logic of Bruner’s
earlier view (roughly up to the 1970s) was that of cultural transmission.
It is true that Bruner critiqued, since the earliest stage of his career,
some theories (psychological or otherwise) that seemed to him to imply
cultural transmission as a crucial mission of schools. For example, he
criticized John Dewey for promising cultural transcendence but failing
to provide appropriate means for it. However, when we consider the
context in which his particular ideas should be placed, it becomes clear
that his earlier view provides language that would support rather
conventional views of curriculum and teaching which are shared, for
example, by Franklin Bobbitt and Ralph Tyler.