“What we see changes what we know.

What we know changes

what we see”.
JEAN PIAGET

Today I will tell you about a historical character of early education

constructivism, and that until the present day preschool teachers follow
their teaching. Preschool children develop their intelligence based on
stages, as was established by Piaget in an experiment where he observed
the interaction of the infant and the environment that surrounds him as
a result.

Piaget was a Swiss constructivist psychologist, his studies on the intellectual

and cognitive development of the child exerted a transcendental influence on
developmental psychology and modern pedagogy.

So let's talk a little about his life. His name is Jean William Fritz Piaget. Her
mother's name is French Rebecca Jackson and her father's name is Arthur Piaget. He
was born in Switzerland on August 9, 1896. his father was an outstanding professor of
medieval literature and his mother was a homemaker.

He wrote and published his first scientific work when he was only ten years old.
He finished his doctoral studies in 1918. In 1923 he married Valentine Châtenay with
whom he had three children, Lucienne, Laurent and Jacqueline. He was professor of
psychology, sociology, philosophy of science at the University of Neuchâtel.

Jean Piaget occupies one of the most relevant places in contemporary psychology
and, without a doubt, the most prominent in the field of child psychology; No scholar has
described in such detail and rigor the process of how preschool children learn. He
distinguished four stages in the child's intellectual development: sensorimotor,
preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operation.

So, I conclude that Piaget was and will continue to be the father of child
psychology, since he taught us through his works that education is capable of saving
society, and that children can learn by building their knowledge.

Article written by: MARI CARMEN ESCOBAL CÓRDOVA