People 

Jean Piaget 1896-1980  - Switzerland

Encyclopedia Entries

Columbian Encyclopedia

Questions of 

Piaget theorized that cognitive development proceeds in four genetically determined stages that always follow the same sequential order. 

Reading

The Child’s Conception of the World (tr. 1929) 

The Moral Judgment of the Child (tr. 1932), 

The Language and Thought of the Child (tr. of 3d ed. 1962), 

Genetic Epistemology (tr. 1970)

Structuralism (1970) focused on the applications of dialectics and structuralism in the behavioral sciences. 

Biology and Knowledge (1971) attempted a synthesis of physics, biology, psychology, and epistemology

The Development of Thought (tr. 1977)

Writing Available on the Internet

 

 Commentary

http://www.piaget.org/

A short biography of Piaget

Constructivism web site - huge collection of links

A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Piaget describes stages of cognitive development

U of A Cognitive Sciences Dictionary (Piaget's Stage Theory of Development)

Piaget - biography and overview

Genetic Epistemology - brief description

Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology: Appreciation and Critique - by Robert L. Campbell

Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky - by Michael Cole & James V. Wertsch

 

 

See studies by H. Gardner (1973, repr. 1981), G. Butterworth (1982), S. Sugarman (1987), and M. Chapman (1988).

 

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