Jean Piaget

JEAN PIAGET

Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with a local interest in the history of his mother, Rebecca Jackson, intelligent and energetic, but Jean found him a bit neurotic - the impression that he said dreamed of interest in psychology, but much of the pathology! The oldest child, she was quite independent and put an early interest in nature, especially collecting shells.

At the age of 10 years, he published an article about albino birds are seen in the garden. While still in school in SMTU, research on shellfish (mollusks) took him acquainted with the kolegadari abroad and a job as curator of a museum later canceled since he was not yet enough.
At the age of 15 years of Piagetian intellectual crisis that made him realize that the lack of religious beliefs and philosophical foundations ilmiah.Setelah high school, he went to the University of Neuchatel. Continuous learning and writing, he became sickly, and had to retire to the mountains for a year to recover. When he returned to Neuchatel, he decided to write down his philosophy. Fundamental points to be core to the lives of all his work: "In all areas of life (organic, mental, social) there is 'qualitatively different totalities' of their parts, and forcing them to an organization." This principle forms the basis of his philosophy of structuralism, as it would for Gestaltists, theory, systems, and many others.

In 1918, Jean Piaget received his Doctorate in Science from the University of Neuchâtel .. He worked for a year of psychology at laboratories in Zurich and the famous psychiatrist Bleuler at the clinic during this period, he was introduced to the works of Freud, Jung, and others. In 1919, he taught psychology and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris .. Here he met Simon (of Simon Binet fame) and conducting research to test the intelligence she did not care for right or wrong "style" of intelligent test and began interviewing the subject at a school boy instead, using the psychiatric interviewing techniques that he learned the previous year. In other words, he began to ask how children reasoned.

In 1921, his first article about the psychology of intelligence published in the Journal de entertainers .. In the same year, he accepted a position at the Institut JJ Rousseau in Geneva Here he began with his students to study elementary school children into this reasoning. The first study five books of child psychology. Although he considered very preliminary nature of this work, he was surprised by the strong positive public reaction to work.

In 1923, he married one of his student coworkers, Valentine Chatenay;. In 1925 their first daughter was born in 1927, their second daughter was born, and in 1931, their only child was born. They soon became the focus of intense observation by Piaget and his wife. This research into three books!

In 1929, Jean Piaget began work as Director of Bureau for International Education, he will continue to send until 1967. He also started a large-scale research with A. Szeminska, E. Meyer, and especially the barbell Inhelder, which will be the main collaborator. Piaget should be noted, is very influential in bringing women into experimental psychology. Some of this work, however, will not reach the outside world until World War II Switzerland was over.
In 1940, he became chairman of Experimental Psychology, Director of the psychology laboratory, and the president of the Swiss Society of Psychology this. In 1942, he gave a series of lectures at the College de France, during the Nazi occupation of France. college became The Psychology of Intelligence. At the end of the war, he was appointed as President of the Swiss UNESCO Commission.

Also during this period, he received numerous honorary degrees. He received one of the Sorbonne in 1946, the University of Brussels and University of Brazil in 1949, above the initial one from Harvard in 1936. And, in 1949 and 1950, he published his synthesis, Introduction to Genetic Epistemology.

In 1952, he became a professor at the Sorbonne .. In 1955, he created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology, where he served as director of the remainder of his life and, in 1956, he created the School of Science at the University of Geneva. He continued to work on a general theory about the structure and binding to biological psychological work for many more years. Likewise, he continued his public service through UNESCO as the Swiss delegation. Towards the end of his career, he has written over 60 books and many hundreds of articles. He died in Geneva, 16 September 1980, one of the most significant psychologists of the twentieth century.