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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 104. Chapters: Abraham Low, Alan M. Leslie, Aletha Solter, Alison Gopnik, Anat Ninio, Andreas Demetriou, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Anna Stetsenko, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Anne Fernald, Arnold Gesell, Barbara Landau, Barbel Inhelder, Brian MacWhinney, Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Carol Gilligan, Catherine E. Snow, Catherine McBride-Chang, David F. Bjorklund, Deborah Tolman, Dedre Gentner, Diana Baumrind, Eleanor Maccoby, Elena Lieven, Elissa L. Newport, Elizabeth Bates, Ellen Markman, Erica Burman, Erik Erikson, Esther Thelen, G. Stanley Hall, Gary B. Mesibov, Hans G. Furth, Harry Harlow, Helen Bee, Howard Gardner, J. McVicker Hunt, Jacqueline Jarrett Goodnow, James Marcia, James Mark Baldwin, Jean-Remy Hochmann, Jean Berko Gleason, Jean Piaget, Jenny Saffran, Jerome Bruner, Jerome Kagan, Joan Erikson, John B. Watson, John Bowlby, John H. Flavell, Karen Wynn, Katherine Nelson, Laura-Ann Petitto, Lawrence Kohlberg, Lev Vygotsky, Lila R. Gleitman, Linda B. Smith, List of language acquisition researchers, Lois Holzman, Margaret Lowenfeld, Marion Blank, Mark H. Johnson, Martha W. Alibali, Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, Michael Lamb (psychologist), Michael Rutter, Michael Siegal, Michael Tomasello, Nnenna Nwakanma, Nora Newcombe, Patricia K. Kuhl, Paul Baltes, Paul Bloom (psychologist), Rachel Pinney, Renee Baillargeon, Richard N. Aslin, Robert Kegan, Robert L. Fantz, Robert S. Siegler, Rochel Gelman, Simon Baron-Cohen, Sokoni Karanja, Stephen Crain, Stephen J. Ceci, Susan Carey, Susan Gelman, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Susan Sutherland Isaacs, Theresa Caplan, Thomas Bever, Tricia Striano, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Uta Frith, Yuko Munakata. Excerpt: Jean Piaget (French: 9 August 1896 - 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology." Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education, he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual." Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until his death in 1980. The number of collaborations that its founding made possible, and their impact, ultimately led to the Center being referred to in the scholarly literature as "Piaget's factory." According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget was "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing." Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchatel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland. He was the eldest son of Arthur Piaget (Swiss), a professor of medieval literature at the University of Neuchatel, and Rebecca Jackson (French). Piaget was a precocious child who developed an interest in biology and the natural world. His early interest in zoology earned him a reputation among those in the field after he had published several articles on mollusks by the age of 15. He was educated at the University of Neuchatel, and studied briefly at the University of Zurich. During this time, he published two philosophical papers that showed the direction of his thinking at the time, but which he later dismissed as adolescent thought. His interest in psychoanalysis, at the time a burgeoning strain of psychology, can also be dated to this period. Piaget moved from Switzerland to Paris, France after his graduation and he taught at the Grange-Aux-Belles Street School for Boys. The school was run by Alfred Binet, the developer of the Binet intelligence test, and Piaget assi
