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Jean Piaget

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Noun1.Jean Piaget - Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)


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When considering a student's age, I think of renowned Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who was among the first to subdivide children's cognitive development into stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational or intuitive, operational and concrete operational and formal operational.
A mathematician, computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer, Seymour Papert worked with Jean Piaget, created the Logo programming language and is widely recognized as the father of educational of computing.
Cheney's review of Kieran Egan's Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget ("Progressively Worse," Fall 2003).
 
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