Theorist Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Theorist
7/9/2013
Theorist Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was scientifically intrigued with the world around him at a young age. He wrote his first paper on the behavior of species specific sparrows at the age of 11. Many view his first writing as the birth of a scientific mind. During college he studied and completed a Ph.D. in natural sciences. He continued to focus his area of research on the organization of a person’s thought process. Piaget was interested in the process of psychoanalysis; this interest was further ignited when he worked with De Simon at , Ecole de la rue de la Grange-aux-Belles, a boys school developed by Alfred Binet (Smith, 2000). Binet and Simon had created a measuring system of …show more content…
Piaget was influenced by the men of his educational process such as Binet and Simon but interestingly enough his emotional connections may have provided him the most important conduits for his desire to research, analyze and develop his world renowned theory. First, his father who was a studious professor of literature during his childhood. Secondly his children with whom he observed, recorded and analyzed throughout their development. As Piaget watched his children discover, process and learn, he recorded their successes but more important to him was their mistakes. He believed that his children’s mistakes provided a greater insight into how their minds learned, processed their experiences and altered their acquired knowledge. (Don Baucum, 2006, p. 70) Through these interactions with his children he honed his understanding of the development of a child’s intellect and he assessed that adults were not superior to children in thought …show more content…
He felt that these perceptions shaped children’s ability to develop knowledge. The research, data and analysis based theory has been used to design the basis of education for children all over the world. It has also shaped the opinions of what parenting should entail. Piaget’s influence can be seen in most if not all areas of development; however the greatest influence is on education. Piaget believed that children’s knowledge and more importantly the function of learning was to be cultivated through experiences, mistakes and opportunities to develop their ability to reason as the children themselves displayed they were ready for the experience and not a pre-determined schedule. He conceived that children would merge their knowledge as they transitioned from one stage to another, in a type of blending of thought process. Since Piaget believed children acquired their knowledge through the maturity process he saw his theory applicable to all cultures of society. The quality of Piaget’s theory provided the scientific community the ability to participate in a wide variety of studies on cognitive development all over the world. The Cross-Cultural research that has come to fruition from this theory has given the world the ability to more easily identify the similarities in diverse
Theorist
7/9/2013
Theorist Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was scientifically intrigued with the world around him at a young age. He wrote his first paper on the behavior of species specific sparrows at the age of 11. Many view his first writing as the birth of a scientific mind. During college he studied and completed a Ph.D. in natural sciences. He continued to focus his area of research on the organization of a person’s thought process. Piaget was interested in the process of psychoanalysis; this interest was further ignited when he worked with De Simon at , Ecole de la rue de la Grange-aux-Belles, a boys school developed by Alfred Binet (Smith, 2000). Binet and Simon had created a measuring system of …show more content…
Piaget was influenced by the men of his educational process such as Binet and Simon but interestingly enough his emotional connections may have provided him the most important conduits for his desire to research, analyze and develop his world renowned theory. First, his father who was a studious professor of literature during his childhood. Secondly his children with whom he observed, recorded and analyzed throughout their development. As Piaget watched his children discover, process and learn, he recorded their successes but more important to him was their mistakes. He believed that his children’s mistakes provided a greater insight into how their minds learned, processed their experiences and altered their acquired knowledge. (Don Baucum, 2006, p. 70) Through these interactions with his children he honed his understanding of the development of a child’s intellect and he assessed that adults were not superior to children in thought …show more content…
He felt that these perceptions shaped children’s ability to develop knowledge. The research, data and analysis based theory has been used to design the basis of education for children all over the world. It has also shaped the opinions of what parenting should entail. Piaget’s influence can be seen in most if not all areas of development; however the greatest influence is on education. Piaget believed that children’s knowledge and more importantly the function of learning was to be cultivated through experiences, mistakes and opportunities to develop their ability to reason as the children themselves displayed they were ready for the experience and not a pre-determined schedule. He conceived that children would merge their knowledge as they transitioned from one stage to another, in a type of blending of thought process. Since Piaget believed children acquired their knowledge through the maturity process he saw his theory applicable to all cultures of society. The quality of Piaget’s theory provided the scientific community the ability to participate in a wide variety of studies on cognitive development all over the world. The Cross-Cultural research that has come to fruition from this theory has given the world the ability to more easily identify the similarities in diverse