Jean Piaget: 53 books

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from...

First published in English in 1969, the book opens with a chapter by Pierre Oléron on intellectual activities. These fall into three groups: inductive activities (the apprehension of laws, relations and concepts), reasoning and problem solving. It describes typical methods and essential results obtained...

En pleine guerre mondiale (1942), le Collège de France a invité Jean Piaget à donner une série de leçons sur la psychologie de l’intelligence. Il a accepté. Malgré la déconstruction de la France occupée, Piaget continuait de construire résolument son édifice scientifique, tout comme l’enfant...

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest names in psychology. A knowledge of his ideas is essential for all in psychology and education. Sociological Studies is one of his major works to remain untranslated. Now an international team of Piaget experts has got together to ensure that this important work...

Il bambino non è, come voleva Rousseau, un semplice homunculus, ovvero un uomo in miniatura non ancora completo, bensì un essere sui generis, il cui sviluppo affettivo e cognitivo passa attraverso fasi differenziate e obbedisce a leggi proprie. È questo l’assunto fondamentale da cui parte Jean Piaget...

Si tratta del più completo lavoro che concerne l’Epistemologia Genetica e che insieme a Biologie et Connaissance rappresenta le posizioni che Jean Piaget ha assunto nei confronti del problema della costruzione delle conoscenze. Gli scritti piagetiani riportati in questo lavoro sono parte di una...

Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified...

Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research of the 20th century. He was also prolific, authoring or editing over 80 books and numerous journals and papers which spawned a continuation of his work over the following decades. His work now...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) è universalmente noto come il fondatore della psicologia dell’intelligenza. Tuttavia la sua pur titanica opera nel campo della psicologia è solo una parte del suo progetto di epistemologia genetica, l’impresa interdisciplinare e transdisciplinare più importante che il...

Publié pour la première fois en 1959, cet ouvrage de Jean Piaget et Bärbel Inhelder propose une analyse particulièrement approfondie des mécanismes qui conduisent l'enfant à la maîtrise des conduites de classification et de sériation. Commentant un ensemble de recherches minutieuses, les auteurs...

Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he...

Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.

This book, the last one written by Piaget, presents a new line of empirical studies based on a revised formulation of his theory of the development of logical reasoning. The amended theory overcomes many problems and criticisms of his earlier formulations by providing a fresh explanation for the origin...

Originally published in English in 1971, structuralism was an increasingly important method of analysis in disciplines as diverse as mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy. Piaget here offers both a definitive introduction to the method and a...