On August 9th Jean Piaget was born. His father Arthur Piaget was a professor of medieval literature. Piaget’s mother was the reason he took an interest in psychology this was because his mother was energetic and intelligent but Piaget found his mother to be in a negative emotional state for a long amount of time. By the age of ten, Piaget published his first paper and he continued publishing in high school about mollusks. After high school Piaget went to the University of Neuchâtel and in 1918 Piaget received his Doctorate in Science and for a year he worked in a psychology lab in Zurich. In 1919, Piaget taught philosophy and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris, This was when he met Simon (of Simon-Binet fame) and did research on intelligence testing. In 1921, Piaget’s first article was published it was on the psychology of intelligence and in the same year, he accepted a position in Geneva. This was where he began with his students to research the reasoning of elementary school children. The research that Piaget conducted in Geneva was the foundation for his first five books that he published on child psychology. In 1923, Piaget married one of his student co-worker, Valentine Châtenay, and in 1925, their first daughter was born; in 1927, their second daughter was born; and then in 1931, their only son was born. Piaget’s three children immediately became the focus of an intense observation by Piaget and his wife. This research then made Piaget publish three books. By the end of his career, Piaget had written over 60 books and hundreds of articles. Piaget died in Geneva on September the 16th in 1980, he was regarded as one of the most significant psychologists of the twentieth century.

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...ildren to understand and that is by using small numbers for the younger children and larger numbers for the preschool children. As the age range of children in my practical experience is varied, my activities have to be suited to the different stages of the children.


Conclusion

In conclusion, Jean Piaget was a theorist that believed that children have certain skills and this makes them not less intelligent than adults. Also even though he was a great theorist, there have been strengths and weaknesses to his ideas. In addition, to having strengths and weaknesses Piaget’s theory has been very useful in my practical experience and it has been very informative about how a child’s mind works. Overall, Jean Piaget was a great theorist that had a very informative theory and an overall perspective of how a child’s mind works and how their thought processes are different.