Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 –  September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemological view called "genetic epistemology". He created in 1955 the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and directed it until 1980. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing".
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Noun
1. Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)
(synonym) Piaget
(hypernym) psychologist

n. Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss psychologist and researcher on child development (best known for his theory about the four stages of cognitive development in children)

(b. 1896, Neuchatel, Switzerland, d. 1980, Geneva, Switzerland. Ph.D. Biology, University of Neuchatel, 1918). Piaget is widely considered the most influential developmental theorist of the twentieth century. According to Piaget, cognitive development is a progression from a state of egocentrism, characterized by the use of concrete concepts, toward the construction and use of abstract concepts.
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