In the 1930s, Jean Piaget formulated his cognitive development theory, suggesting that children progressively gain knowledge and form mental representations of the world.

How do children think about right and wrong? Moral Stages and Broken Glasses The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget is renowned for his stage theory of development. According to Piaget, children ...

Piaget believed that teaching should provide rich experiences for students to explore and discover on their own.

Piaget's work with children led to his identifying four main stages in cognitive development. Her first two years of life, the sensori-motor stage, a child learns through her body.

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss psychologist known for work on child development; theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology; ...

Piaget describes stages of cognitive development 1923 - 1952. Photo: Jean Piaget. Jean ... The stage from 18-24 months to 7 years Piaget called preoperational, where children can think about ...

Niklas Pramling, 'The clouds are alive because they fly in the air as if they were birds': A re-analysis of what children say and mean in clinical interviews in the work of Jean Piaget, European ...