Famous People with Name Bruner

Wally Bruner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wally Bruner: was an American journalist and television host.He covered Congress and the Lyndon Johnson administration for ABC News in the 1960s. He was the first host of the 1968-1975 syndicated version of What's My Line? and went on to host the syndicated home repair show Wally's Workshop.

Jerome Seymour Bruner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jerome Seymour Bruner: an American psychologist who has contributed to cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology and to the general philosophy of education. Bruner is currently a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. Bruner's ideas are based on categorization. "To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize." Bruner maintains people interpret the world in terms of its similarities and differences. Like Bloom's Taxonomy, Bruner suggests a system of coding in which people form a hierarchical arrangement of related categories. Each successively higher level of categories becomes more specific, echoing Benjamin Bloom's understanding of knowledge acquisition as well as the related idea of instructional scaffolding.

Thomas Carlton Bruner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Carlton Bruner: is a former long-distance freestyle swimmer from the United States, who was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in his city of birth. He attended the University of Florida.[1]

Mike Bruner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mike Bruner: is an American swimmer, world champion and olympic champion. He competed at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where he received a gold medal in 200 m butterfly (also world record), and a gold medal in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. He received a gold medal

Franz-Hermann Brüner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Franz-Hermann Brüner: was a German public official who was until recently director-general of OLAF, the European Union Anti-Fraud Office. He was first appointed to the post in 2000,[1] and was reappointed to the post in 2006 over the European Parliament’s preferred candidate.[