Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

IT is late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: “It can’t be. I haven’t had my nap.” Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a ...

I'm in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother's bag in search of fruit snacks. The contents spill onto the table, bench and floor. It's a chaotic—but functional—solution to the problem.

We have to thank the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget for 'learning by play' applied to the classroom - a personal discovery which he believed to be far more effective than sitting in ...

Henrike Moll receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about what others are thinking. Swiss ...

SALINAS >> Frustrated with her experience in the classroom, teacher Jane Meade-Roberts enrolled in a doctoral program under the tutelage of Constance Kamii at the University of Illinois at Chicago.