Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 17, 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and epistemologist renowned for his pioneering work on child development and cognitive theory. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Piaget's research has significantly influenced our understanding of how children develop intellectual abilities and construct knowledge. His insights have had a lasting impact on education, psychology, and the study of human cognition.
Personal Name: Piaget, Jean
Birth: 1896
Death: 1980
Jean Piaget Books
(43 Books)
"Piaget's work is a cornerstone in development. His writing is long and laborious. He takes six pages to tell us that a 2 month old exhibits imitation behaviors. He was not an expert in parsimony. In his defense the translation from French is a bit awkward. What French I can read, of his work it is smoother than this translation. Case study gold, quoted as fact as if he had done something more significant than watch his own children and write down their behavior. No experimentally designed trials here. It's funny the same people and institutions who tout his great methods of research criticize Freud for his exact same research method: the case study. Many devout Piaget loyalists have never even read his original work. They've only been exposed to his work by text books in class. For this reason alone, I urge everyone to read as much source material as possible. Piaget is no exception. Get it, read it, make your own interpretation. Love it or hate it, you'll be wiser for the effort" -- Amazon.com.
Este es uno de los libros fundamentales —un clásico ya— de Jean Piaget (1896-1980). La inteligencia aparece con el lenguaje, pero ya desde la cuna el niño muestra una actividad sensorial y motriz extraordinaria que, desde el primer año. presenta todos los caracteres de la comprensión inteligente. Poco a poco se realizan las adaptaciones sensoriomotrices elementales constituidas por reflejos (el de la succión, por ejemplo) y las primeras adaptaciones adquiridas. Más tarde, aparecen los numerosos estadios de lo que son ya adaptaciones intencionales. Averiguar y explicar con paciente rigor cómo nace y se desarrolla la inteligencia en el niño es, pues, la valiosa tarea que el gran psicólogo suizo se impuso al escribir este libro.
Jean Piaget is unquestionably one of the world's most renowned psychologists. This book encompasses his latest research and recasts his previous conclusions in the light of his recent work. His central idea is that knowledge proceeds neither from intuitive or logical internal processes, but that it develops from a series of cognitive structures, built one above the other, requiring continuous adjustment and leading to further constructions. -- Publisher description.
The description of what Jean Piaget discovered with regard to how we as humans might learn, grow and succeed in thinking better as we grow older.
Jean Piaget discusses his theories on child development and his interpretations of experiments involving Swiss children.
This book is based on three lectures which were given in the University of Manchester in October 1952.
