Genetic Epistemology

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist, born on August 9, 1896, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His first interest in zoology, when he was a young man and published an article in which he talks about his observations on the albino, has written many publications regarding mollusks and won the admiration of many, and by 15 years she had gained fame among European zoologists, as he studied zoology and philosophy and obtained He received his Ph.D. from the University of Neuchâtel in 1918. The psychologist and geneticist is best known for his theory of cognitive development, which looked at how children develop intellectually. Before his theory, children were seen as small adults, but Piaget proposed the idea that children think very differently. About the way adults think, and this theory has influenced developmental psychology and became a branch of it, and contributed greatly to the field of education, and was known as a pioneer in the constructivist theory, which indicates that people build their knowledge Actively drawing on their ideas and experiences, he began to show an interest in the natural sciences at an early age, at the age of eleven, beginning his work as a researcher when he wrote about the albino.