Piagets+life+story

· Born in Neuchatel (Switzerland on the 9th of August 1896.

· He was the oldest child of Arthur Piaget (professor of medieval literature) and Rebecca Jackson.

· At the age of eleven while he was still attending a Latin high school he wrote a short notice on an albino sparrow. This was later to be considered as the very starting point of his scientific career, which was made up of over sixty books and several hundred articles.

· He began publishing in high school. He started publishing on the area of mollusks.

· In 1918 Piaget received his doctorate in science from the university of Neuchatel. Piaget went on to work for a year at some psychology labs in Zurich and Bleuler’s famous psychiatric clinic. It was here that he became interested in the work that that Freud, Jung and others did.

· In 1919 he taught philosophy at Sorbonne in Paris, where he came in contact with Simon (son of Simon- Binet Fame) and did research on intelligence testing.

· In 1921 Piaget had his first article on the psychology of intelligence published in the journal de Psychologie. This year was the year that also seen him accept a position in the institute of J.J Roussean in Geneva. It was in this year that he started his research with some students regarding the reasoning of elementary school children. This research would be the topic of his first book on child psychology.

· In 1923 Piaget fell in love with and married Valentine Chantenay, who was one of his co. workers at the time. The couple went on to have three children together, whose intellectual development from birth to the onset of language was the subject of his major studies.

· In 1929 Piaget was appointed the position of Professor of history of scientific thought in the university of Geneva.

· In 1940 Piaget became a director of a psychology laboratory.

· In 1955 Piaget took on the role of director of international centre of Epistemology in Geneva.

· On the !6th of September 1980 Jean Piaget died. (Evan, 1973)