the early influence in the life of Jean Piager

THE EARLY INFLUENCE IN THE LIFE OF JEAN PIAGET

Introduction

Jean Piaget was born on the August 9th 1896 in Neuchatel , Switzerland the son of a historian . To some Piaget was a natural scientist , Swiss philosopher and a developmental theorist . Others viewed him as an influential experimenter and theorist in the field of developmental psychology and in the study of human intelligence . He is well known well known for his work in studying children , his HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Theory_of_cognitive_development " \o "Theory of cognitive development " theory of cognitive development and

for his epistemological view called HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Genetic_epistemology " \o "Genetic epistemology " genetic epistemology . In 1921 , Piaget became the director of research at the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Geneva in 1925 , Piaget , took the chair of philosophy at the University of Neuchatel and in 1929 he became the Director of the International Bureau of Education until 1968 . In 1955 he created the International centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva . He married Valentine Chwtenay , one of his students together , the couple had three children , his first daughter was born in 1925 , his second daughter in 1927 and a boy followed in 1931 , of which Piaget took pride in studying from intimacy

As a child , Piaget had interests in mechanic , seashells and birds . He published his first at 10 and at age 22 he received his PhD in science from the University of Neuchatel . In 1919 he went to Paris where he attended courses in pathological physiology where he learned to interview mental patients . It was at this time that Theodore Simon asked Piaget to work at the Binet 's laboratory in Paris where he worked on refining Burt 's reasoning test . This is where he started to investigate the way that children reason . For two years he analyzed the verbal reasoning of normal children by availing different questions and exposing them to tasks that involved simple concrete relations of cause and effect . This is when he found out that he wanted to work in the field of inductive and experimental psychology

Influences in his early life

Piaget 's life was influenced by a number of things especially because his analysis and published work started to show at a very young age Piaget 's father was a historian who was devoted to his writings of medieval literature and the history of Neuchatel . Piaget 's childhood was influenced by what he saw in his father , a man dedicated to his studies and work he learnt the value of systematic work , in the smallest matters . As a result , he began passing up recreation for studying particularly in natural sciences

He became like his father a person dedicated to his writings . When Piaget was 11 , his notes on a rare part-albino sparrow were published the first of hundreds of articles and over fifty books . His help in the classification of Neuchwtel 's natural-history museum collection inspired his study of mollusks (shellfish . An article written when he was fifteen , led...