The Swiss scientist revolutionized the way of looking at children's education by showing that they don't think like adults
Jean Piaget was born on August 9, 1896, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Piaget was a child ahead of his time, in 1907 at just 10 years old, he published in the journal of the Society of Friends of Nature in Neuchâtel an article with studies on a White Sparrow.
In 1915, the Swiss graduated from the University of Neuchâtel in biology. In 1918 he received his doctorate with his thesis on molluscs. He moves to study psychology (his focus was psychoanalysis) in Zurich.
He moves to France in 1919 and enters the University of Paris, where he is invited to work with children's intelligence tests. In 1921, he received an invitation from Edouard Claparède (educational psychologist) and began to carry out his research in Geneva at the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute (destined to train teachers).
In 1923, the Swiss Jean Piaget released “The language and thought of the child”, his first book. A year later he marries Valentine Châtenay (his assistant), and with her he has three children: Jacqueline, Lucienne and Laureni (1925, 1927 and 1931). It is with the birth of his children that Piaget begins to take a closer look at child development.
In 1925, Jean Piaget began teaching psychology, history of science and sociology in Neuchâtel.
In Geneva he began teaching history of scientific thought in 1929. It was in this same year that the Swiss took over the International Education Office, dedicated to pedagogical matters.
In the 1930s he writes about the early stages of child development, much of which is based on observing his children.
Together with researchers Bärbel Inhelder and Alina Szeminska, in 1941, he published works on the formation of mathematical and physical concepts.
In 1946, Swiss Jean Piaget took part in the drafting of the Unesco Constitution, became a member of the executive council and deputy director general, responsible for the Department of Education.
The book “Introduction to Genetic Epistemology” is published in 1950. Two years later Piaget succeeds the philosopher Merleau-Ponty, teaching at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
In 1955, he founded the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva, whose purpose was to carry out interdisciplinary research on the formation of intelligence. In 1967 Piaget writes “Biology and knowledge”.
1980 – Dies on September 16, in Geneva.
Jean Piaget's Theories
Jean Piaget's theories try to explain to us how intelligence develops in human beings. Among his most important theories are:
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References
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