Research on Piaget: Philosopher and Pioneer of Psychology

Running Head: PIAGET 0
RESEARCH ON PIAGET
PHILIOSOPHER

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ABSTRACT
The entire life of Piaget is high lightened in this research, which starts from his birth in the year
1896 and covers all the ups, downs, and achievements, his career and also his personal life. He is
a pioneer of psychology and the importance of his work which has an essential space in the field
or the subject of education, till his death in the year 1980.
His cognitive theory and research done on the mindset of the children are the commendable work
done by him in the field of psychology. Along with the plus points there are also criticizes which
were faced by him, but all of those criticizes are considered as secondary in front of his
achievements and the work done.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW.............................................................................................3
HISTORY.......................................................................................................................................4
Personal......................................................................................................................................4
Career.........................................................................................................................................4
Piaget’s word..............................................................................................................................5
DISCOVERING HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE.......................................................................6
HIS CONTRIBUTION & INFLUENCE ON PSYCHOLOGY................................................7
IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHIES...................................................................................................8
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PIAGET’S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
THEORY........................................................................................................................................9
Strengths.....................................................................................................................................9
Weaknesses.................................................................................................................................9
CRITICISM.................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................11
References.....................................................................................................................................13

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INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
Through this research the entire life and history of the Piaget an outstanding philosopher will be
researched along with all his achievements in all the field will be discovered very carefully. The
mesmerizing journey of Jean Piaget started in the year 1896, August 9 and ended on 16
September, 1980.
He was a psychologist in Swiss, who became popular for his work on the development of the
children, his cognitive development theory along with the views on knowledge and the methods
of achieving it, was combined together and called as “genetic epistemology.” He was the
director of the “International Bureau of Education” and in the year 1934 he declared that the
only way of solving the collapse which may possibly raise in the society can only be overcome
by education, so he emphasized mostly on the education of the of the children. In all the
programmers of the pre-services education his child development theory is been studied and the
educators till now continues including these strategies. In Geneva also he generated an
International center for the Genetic branch of philosophy which is basically concerned with
knowledge in the year 1955.
From the beginning of his career till the death there were many alliances of his work which were
made possible and had diverse impact and the scholars called his work and literature as the
“factory of Piaget.” Ernst von Glassersfield considered Piaget as a greet pioneer of the theory of
constructive knowledge and was seen immediately after the psychologist of the year B.F.
Skinner, in the 20th century.