Bruner's benefits of discovery learning

Bruner sees discovery learning as having benefits in four areas.

1. Through discovery, information gets deeply processed, is better rooted in memory and can be used in practical (problem solving) situations more easily;
2. Bruner assumes that discovery learning goes along with intrinsic motivation (motivation in learning itself) instead of extrinsic motivation;
3. Bruner says that the art of discovery itself is a very useful art, that needs to be practiced;
4. He assumes that through discovery learning knowledge that is organized in memory in a way that suits a learner's own interest and cognitive structures can be retrieved more easily.