Jean Piaget was a cognitive learning theorist that was born on August 9th 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. In addition, he was a considerably well-known psychologist and biologist that found interest in nature at an early age. At age 11 a natural history magazine published his first article describing an albino sparrow that had been seen in a park. In return he grew close to the director of the museum and was put in charge to assist in the classification of the museum’s zoology collection. At that time, he had started to study molluscs and from age 15 to 18 he published a series of articles on these shellfish (Ginsburg and Opper, 1969, pg. 2). The spark of Jean Piaget’s passion and interest from biological sciences to more of a philosophical approach came from spending time with his godfather Samuel Cornut on vacation.
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Piaget began reading philosophy and then this eventually shifted his mindset to epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge (Ginsburg and Opper, 1969, pg. 2). This would be the catalyst for Jean Piaget’s interest in knowledge and help him develop his theory of cognitive development that would help many educators understand how children grow and develop. In 1916 Jean Piaget completed his undergraduate studies in natural sciences at the university of his town, just two years later at age 21, he submitted to that same university his thesis on the molluscs of the Valais region of Switzerland, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. By 1920 now he had published an article on the relations between psychoanalysis and child psychology in which psychology started to become an interest to his as well (Ginsberg and Opper, 1969, pg.
Piaget began reading philosophy and then this eventually shifted his mindset to epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge (Ginsburg and Opper, 1969, pg. 2). This would be the catalyst for Jean Piaget’s interest in knowledge and help him develop his theory of cognitive development that would help many educators understand how children grow and develop. In 1916 Jean Piaget completed his undergraduate studies in natural sciences at the university of his town, just two years later at age 21, he submitted to that same university his thesis on the molluscs of the Valais region of Switzerland, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. By 1920 now he had published an article on the relations between psychoanalysis and child psychology in which psychology started to become an interest to his as well (Ginsberg and Opper, 1969, pg.