Piaget



Name: Jean William Fritz Piaget

Birthday: August 9, 1896

Birthplace: Neuchatel, Switzerland

This day in history (in location):
 * start of car production in Switzerland in 1896

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Educational Background:

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In 1919 he became interested in psychology, and studied and carried out research in Zurich, Switzerland, and later in Sorbonne, Paris. He was first inerested in Freudian theories, however it was whilst he was studying in Sorbonne that he began his studies on cognitive development. ======

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At the age of 25 in 1921, Piaget took the job of Director of and Institute for research on children in Geneva, Switzerland. ======

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In 1923, Piaget married Valentine Chatenay, and their first daughter, Jacqueline was born in 1925. His second daughter Lucienne was born in 1927, and in 1931, a son, Laurent was born into the family. Piaget used each of his children to investigate the development of thought processes. ======

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Piaget spent fifty years studying children. Between 1929, and 1967, he was the Director of the International Bureau for Education. He also held the position of director of the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva between 1933 and 1971, was the Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Lausanne between 1938 and 1951, and the Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva between 1939 and 1952. From 1940 to 1971, Piaget was also the Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Geneva, and from 1952 to 1963 he was the Professor of Development Psychology at Sorbonne. ======

Family Background:

He was the eldest son of Arthur Piaget (Swiss), a professor of [|medieval literature] at the [|University of Neuchâtel], and Rebecca Jackson (French).

Quotations:


 * The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

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 * It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
 * This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
 * Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
 * The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
 * Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
 * Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
 * Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
 * Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
 * Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.