Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980)
Jean Piaget was known for being an epistemologist and swiss biologist. He was considered the father of genetic epistemology by all over the world. Also, Piaget was recognized by his constructivist theory of the development of intelligence. Appart of this, He was designated director by the international Bureau of Education.
Cognitive development is considered by Piaget gradual. Reflections form the basis from which intelligence is constructed. These are innate and simple behaviors that allow you to approach, manipulate and know the environment. The stages of development elaborated by Piaget were: sensorimotor stage, preoperative stage, stage of the concrete operations and stage of the formal operations.
The teaching was given in a school for children on the street. The Binet-Simon scale and intelligence test was created together with Theodore Simon. Piaget was realizing that children were giving the wrong answers to certain questions But these consistent errors were fulfilling a certain regularity that was deserved of attention by Piaget who was the one who focused on this study.
Different works were written by him. Recherche, Lausanne: The Concorde was considered one of his first major works. In Paris 1990, Delachaux et Niestlé was published as his last work.