Jean Piaget

Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".

Works

(in French unles noted)

• Le Langage et la pensée chez l'enfant, 1923.
  • The Language and Thought of the Child, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1926. (English)

• L'épistémologie génétique, Paris: PUF, 1950; 1970.
  • The Principles of Genetic Epistemology, New York: Basic Books, 1972. (English)
  • Epistemologia genetică, trans. I. Pecher, Cluj: Dacia, 1973, PDF, IA. (Romanian)

• Les formes elementaires de la diafectique, Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
  • Formele elementare ale dialecticii, trans. Calnelia Grădinaru, Iaşi: Institutul European, 2007, PDF, IA. (Romanian)

Literature

• Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, editor, Théories de l'apprentissage: Le débat entre Jean Piaget et Noam Chomsky organisé et recueilli par, Paris: Seuil, 1979; 1982; Points, 1993.
  • Language and learning: the debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980. (English)
  • Teorii ale limbajului. Teorii ale învăţării, trans. Ecaterina Popa, Ioan A. Popa, Mihaela Toader and Tiberiu Toader, Bucharest: Editura Politică, 1988, IA. (Romanian)

• Richard Kohler and Richard Bailey, Jean Piaget, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, IA.

Links

• Piaget at Wikipedia
• Publications by and about Jean Piaget
• Archives