Abstract
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) was a Swiss psychologist, educator, and author of over thirty volumes. His major contribution was in the field of beginning intelligence. Through his keen observational skills of young children, he showed how emerging intelligence goes through various stages of intellectual development as we interact with others and the environment. As an educator, he believed that students should be involved in the process of inventing and discovering their knowledge rather than being told what and how to do things.
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Herbert Ginsburg and Sylvia Opper, Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development: An Introduction (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969), p. 62.
Mary Ann Spencer Pulaski, Your Baby’s Mind and How It Grows: Piaget’s Theory for Parents (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), p. 15.
Ibid, p. 31.
Ibid, p. 48.
Jean Piaget, Origins of Intelligence in Children (New York: Norton, 1963), p. 215.
Pulaski, Baby’s Mind, p. 87.
Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder, The Psychology of the Child (New York: Basic Books, 1969), pp. 11–12.
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Maffei, A.C., Hauck, T.M. (1992). Beginning Intellectual Development. In: Purposeful Play with Your Preschooler. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6385-7_2
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