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dang on June 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

> the great Jerome Bruner in the 60s came up with a terrific curriculum for 5th graders that was an excellent start for "real anthroplogy"

Was that the MACOS program?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man:_A_Course_of_Study

I was casting around recently looking for something to post to HN about it, but there's surprisingly little on the web. (I haven't yet watched the National Film Board documentary on it, which was the only substantive source I could find.)

alankay on June 20, 2016 [–]

Yes, it was MACOS. A very good book about this is "Politics in the Classroom".

There is actually quite a lot of stuff on MACOS on the web, most of the materials, etc.

Bruner wrote a number of outstanding essays as part of the MACOS design project ...

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