{"id":1701,"date":"2022-11-17T02:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationlibrary.org\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T20:15:43","slug":"jean-piaget-biography-theory-and-cognitive-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationlibrary.org\/jean-piaget-biography-theory-and-cognitive-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Piaget: Biography, Theory and Cognitive Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Over the course of his remarkable career of nearly 75 years, Piaget opened the doors to new information as to how the mind works. From his first publication at age 10 to his research when he passed at 84, Piaget shed light on new ideas. He developed several new fields of science including developmental psychology<\/strong>, cognitive theory<\/strong> and genetic epistemology<\/strong>. Piaget\u2019s work established the foundation for today\u2019s education-reform movements, though he himself was not an educational reformer. His works initiated changes comparable to the displacement of stories of “noble savages” and “cannibals” in modern anthropology. Piaget was the first psychologist to take children’s thinking seriously (1<\/sup>). A main theorist whose ideas contradicted Piaget\u2019s ideas was Lev Vygotsky<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n