Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget was one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. His influence on developmental psychology, education and epistemology has been enormous. This text undertakes a reconstruction of the contexts and intellectual development of Piaget''s numerous texts in the wide-ranging fields of biology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, child psychology, social psychology, theology, logic, epistemology and education.Richard Kohler reconstructs the often overlooked theological basis of Piaget''s theories and analyses the influence this had upon the various areas of his research and reflections, particularly in relation to education.>

About the author

Richard Kohler is Lecturer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland.Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kohler, KOHLER RICHARD
• Assisted by: Richard Bailey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781472518880
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1888-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought; Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought; Bloomsbury Library of Educatio
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries