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| Jean Piaget |
Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss philosopher and
natural scientist, and was well known for his work studying children. His theory of
cognitive development and epistemological view's together called "genetic
epistemology."
He laid great importance to the education of children that made him declare in
1934 in his role as Director of the International Bureau of Education that ‘only
education's capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether
violent, or gradual’.
In 1955 he created the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva
and directed it until 1980. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget's "the
great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing."
Biography
Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchâtel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature at the University of
Neuchâtel. Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology
and the natural world, particularly molluscs, and even published a number of
papers before he graduated from high school. He published his first scientific
paper at the age of ten. Over the course of his career, Piaget wrote more than
sixty books and several hundred articles.
Piaget received a Ph.D. in natural science from the University of Neuchâtel, and
also studied briefly at the University of Zürich. During this time, he published two
philosophical papers which showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but
which he later dismissed as adolescent thought . His interest in psychoanalysis, a
strain of psychological thought burgeoning at that time, can also be dated to this
period. He then moved from Switzerland to Paris, France, where he taught at the
Grange-Aux-Belles street school for boys run by Alfred Binet, the developer of the
Binet intelligence test.
It was while he was helping to mark some instances of these intelligence tests
that Piaget noticed that young children consistently gave wrong answers to
certain questions. Piaget didn't focus so much on the fact of the children's
answers being wrong, but that young children kept making the same pattern of
mistakes that older children and adults didn't. This led him to the theory that
young children's cognitive processes are inherently different from those of adults.
(Ultimately, he was to propose a global theory of developmental stages stating
that individuals exhibit certain distinctive common patterns of cognition in each
period in their development.) In 1921, Piaget returned to Switzerland as director
of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva.
In 1923, he married Valentine Châtenay, one of his students; together, the
couple had three children, whom Piaget studied from infancy. In 1929, Jean
Piaget accepted the post of Director of the International Bureau of Education
and remained the head of this international organization until 1968. Every year, he
drafted his “Director's Speeches” for the IBE Council and for the International
Conference on Public Education in which he explicitly expressed his educational
credo.
In 1964, Piaget was invited to serve as chief consultant at two conferences at
Cornell University (March 11 to March 13) and University of California, Berkeley
(March 16 to March 18). The conferences addressed the relationship of cognitive
studies and curriculum development and strived to conceive implications of
recent investigations of children's cognitive development for curricula.
natural scientist, and was well known for his work studying children. His theory of
cognitive development and epistemological view's together called "genetic
epistemology."
He laid great importance to the education of children that made him declare in
1934 in his role as Director of the International Bureau of Education that ‘only
education's capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether
violent, or gradual’.
In 1955 he created the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva
and directed it until 1980. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget's "the
great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing."
Biography
Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchâtel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature at the University of
Neuchâtel. Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology
and the natural world, particularly molluscs, and even published a number of
papers before he graduated from high school. He published his first scientific
paper at the age of ten. Over the course of his career, Piaget wrote more than
sixty books and several hundred articles.
Piaget received a Ph.D. in natural science from the University of Neuchâtel, and
also studied briefly at the University of Zürich. During this time, he published two
philosophical papers which showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but
which he later dismissed as adolescent thought . His interest in psychoanalysis, a
strain of psychological thought burgeoning at that time, can also be dated to this
period. He then moved from Switzerland to Paris, France, where he taught at the
Grange-Aux-Belles street school for boys run by Alfred Binet, the developer of the
Binet intelligence test.
It was while he was helping to mark some instances of these intelligence tests
that Piaget noticed that young children consistently gave wrong answers to
certain questions. Piaget didn't focus so much on the fact of the children's
answers being wrong, but that young children kept making the same pattern of
mistakes that older children and adults didn't. This led him to the theory that
young children's cognitive processes are inherently different from those of adults.
(Ultimately, he was to propose a global theory of developmental stages stating
that individuals exhibit certain distinctive common patterns of cognition in each
period in their development.) In 1921, Piaget returned to Switzerland as director
of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva.
In 1923, he married Valentine Châtenay, one of his students; together, the
couple had three children, whom Piaget studied from infancy. In 1929, Jean
Piaget accepted the post of Director of the International Bureau of Education
and remained the head of this international organization until 1968. Every year, he
drafted his “Director's Speeches” for the IBE Council and for the International
Conference on Public Education in which he explicitly expressed his educational
credo.
In 1964, Piaget was invited to serve as chief consultant at two conferences at
Cornell University (March 11 to March 13) and University of California, Berkeley
(March 16 to March 18). The conferences addressed the relationship of cognitive
studies and curriculum development and strived to conceive implications of
recent investigations of children's cognitive development for curricula.
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