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Jean Piaget
Jean William Fritz Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
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Born 9 August 1896 · Died 16 September 1980 · Q123190
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2026· 10 entries
El Tribuno de Jujuy: El Jean Piaget elige representante
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todojujuy.com: FNE 2026: Jean Piaget presentó a sus tres candidatas para la elección
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Jujuy Al Momento: Jean Piaget se prepara para una tarde mágica
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Periódico Enfoque: CAM Jean Piaget en Puebla cambia de turno: así funcionará el servicio educativo
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Impulso Informativo |: SEP ratifica horarios de atención del Centro de Atención Múltiple “Jean Piaget”
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El Sol de México: Alumnos de secundaria sordos de Jean Piaget iniciarán otro ciclo escolar sin maestros capacitados
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Ángulo 7: Preescolar y primaria del CAM Jean Piaget en Puebla mantendrán actividades en turno matutino
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Radio Mitre: Jean Piaget, psicólogo: “Cuando le enseñás a un niño algo, le quitás para siempre la oportunidad de descubrirlo por sí mismo”
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Revista Merca2.0: Jean Piaget, psicólogo: Cuando le enseñas a un niño algo, le quitas para siempre su oportunidad de descubrirlo por sí mismo
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2002· 1 entry
“Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology: Appreciation and Critique”
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1980· 5 entries
Died 1980-09-16.
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“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
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“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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Piaget died on 16 September 1980, and, as he had requested, was buried with his family in an unmarked grave in the Cimetière des Rois (Cemetery of Kings) in Plainpalais district of Geneva.
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“I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.”
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Balzan Prize (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education (1976).
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1972).
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Piaget was awarded the Erasmus Prize and in 1979 the Balzan Prize for Social and Political Sciences
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1969).
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1964· 1 entry
Piaget was invited to serve as chief consultant at two conferences at Cornell University (11–13 March) and the University of California, Berkeley (16–18 March)
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Aix-Marseille (1963).
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1955· 1 entry
While on the faculty of the University of Geneva, and directed the center until his death in 1980
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1947).
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1934· 1 entry
That "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual"
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1932· 1 entry
For two reasons: his use of philosophical criteria to define morality (as universalizable, generalizable, and obligatory) and his rejection of equating cultural norms with moral norms
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1929· 1 entry
Piaget accepted the post of Director of the International Bureau of Education and remained the head of this international organization until 1968
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1925· 1 entry
From 1925 to 1929, Piaget worked as a professor of psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of science at the University of Neuchatel.
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1923· 1 entry
Married Valentine Châtenay (7 January 1899 – 3 July 1983); the couple had three children, whom Piaget studied from infancy
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1921· 1 entry
Piaget returned to Switzerland as director of the Rousseau Institute in Geneva
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1896· 3 entries
Born 1896-08-09.
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In Neuchâtel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland
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Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchâtel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland.
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