preview

Jean Piaget 's Influence On Children

Decent Essays

Jean Piaget was born on the 9th of August in 1896. He lived in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, with his mother and father. Jean had a fairly interesting life and he was incredibly smart showing from a very young age. This most likely had to do with his living conditions. He is most likely known for his study on children and their thought process, as well as coming up with the cognitive theory. In 1896, Rebecca Jackson and Arthur Piaget gave birth to their first born, Jean Piaget. His mother encouraged him to learn what he could and his father, who was a professor in mediaeval literature (Jean Piaget Biography, 2015), was an example to him in having a passionate dedication to his studies. When he was 10, Jean was drawn to mollusks and would often go to the museum of natural history and study them for hours (Jean Piaget Biography, 2015). At age 11, he was in high school and writing researched papers on different animals. But later on in his teenage years, he became well known for his mollusk research paper. He did so well on it that people thought he was a professional on the subject. After graduating high school, he went on to study zoology at the University of Neuchâtel. There he received his Ph.D. in natural sciences. In 1918, he then started schooling at University of Zürich and began studying psychology. Under the influence of Carl Jung and Paul Eugen Bleuler, Piaget became fascinated with psychoanalysis (“a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation

Get Access