Jean piaget

1. Jean piaget • Roberto Magallan • Irving Cantu • 8th pd. • 11/12/11

2. The history • Jean Piaget was born on August 9, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland and died September 17, 1980. He was an influential experimenter and theorist in the field of developmental psychology and in the study of human intelligence. • Piaget learned from his father the value of systematic work, even in small matters. His mother’s mental health influenced his studies of psychology and he became interested in psychoanalysis and pathological psychology.

3. Biography • Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchatel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literatureat the University of Neuchâtel. • Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology and the natural world. • He was educated at the University of Neuchâtel, and studied briefly at the University of Zürich.

4. Why he is important to science? • Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

5. How it affects us today? It affects us , every day of the year , from the moment we wake up , all day long , and through the night.

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