IT is late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: “It can’t be. I haven’t had my nap.” Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a ...
I'm in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother's bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the ...
A future historian of the cognitive sciences—that recently formed amalgam of disciplines which probes the operations of the human mind—might select any of a number of episodes as marking the birth of ...
Jean Piaget, connu comme créateur d'une théorie du développement de l'intelligence chez l'enfant, fut un naturaliste précoce. En 1912, à l'âge de seize ans, il prononça une conférence sur « La vanité ...
We have to thank the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget for 'learning by play' applied to the classroom - a personal discovery which he believed to be far more effective than sitting in ...