Jean Piaget
by Richard Kohler, Professor Richard Bailey
Richard Kohler covers the life and work of Jean Piaget, choosing to examine such topics as Piaget's background, his career as a naturalist, and his ideas on the reconstruction of identity, as well as presenting a critical exposition on his works.
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Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual development of Piaget's numerous texts in the wide-ranging fields of biology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, child psychology, social psychology, theology, logic, epistemology and education.Richard Kohler reconstructs the often overlooked theological basis of Piaget's theories and analyses the influence this had upon the various areas of his research and reflections, particularly in relation to education.
Author Biography
Richard Kohler worked as a secondary school teacher in the UK. After studying educational science, sociology and philosophy at Zürich University, he wrote his PhD thesis on Piaget. He worked as a lecturer at various Universities of Teacher Education, Switzerland, and currently teaches at the Thurgau University of Teacher Education in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's PrefaceForewordIntroductionPart I: Intellectual Biography 1. Piaget's Background2. Piaget's Career as a Naturalist3. Perturbations of Puberty4. The Reconstruction of IdentityPart II: Critical Exposition of Piaget's Work5. Early Psychological Work6. Theological Foundations7. The Social-psychological Work8. The Pedagogic Work9. The Biological Work10. The Main Psychological Work11. The Epistemological Work12. Neither Retirement nor ResignationPart III: The Reception and Influence Piaget's Work 13. The Reception14. The InfluencePart IV: The Relevance of Piaget's Work Today15. The Relevance of Piaget's Work TodayBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
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An overview and synthesis of Jean Piaget's influential educational thought in one volume, including coverage of the reception and influence of his work and its relevance today.
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Jean Piaget is indisputably a major thinker in education. Richard Kohler's volume offers the most coherent account of Piaget's educational thought.
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Brings together the work and thinking of Piaget, a landmark figure in the history of ideas during the 20th century, into applicable theory for education students
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