Background Information
- Jean Piaget was born on August 9, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Died on September 17, 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland
- Son of a Swiss historian, Arthur Piaget
- Jean Piaget was known as a teacher and psychologist who studied stages in the learning and development of children.
- His background included biology, and as a teenager he became known for his studies on mollusks and wrote about twenty scientific papers
- He studied natural sciences at the University of Neuchâtel and received his doctorate in Biology when he was twenty-two
- Piaget became interested in intellectual development after when he was working with the testing of intelligence at a French boy's school
- He conducted most of his research in Zurich, Switzerland, and later in Sorbonne, Paris. During that time he married Valentine Chatenay and had three children
- He used his children in his study of the cognitive development and studied this field for about fifty years
- His positions included director of the International Bureau for Education, director of the Institute for Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva, professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Lausanne and University of Geneva and were a Professor of Experiment Psychology, and lastly he was the Professor of Development Psychology at Sorbonne.
- His most famous work was his book The Origin of Intelligence in Children