We owe much of our awareness of children's cognitive development to Jean Piaget, who encouraged learning through exploration, explains Professor Tricia David Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel, ...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

80 children who were tested in kindergarten on the Gesell School Readiness Tests, a battery built from Piaget's tasks and the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests, were given the Stanford Achievement ...