# Jean Piaget

> He mapped how children actually think - not as mini-adults but as builders of their own logic, stage by stage. That framework reshaped classrooms worldwide and made him the second most-cited psychologist of the 20th century.

*Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896-1980)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1896-08-09
- **Died:** 1980-09-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who spent decades studying how children develop understanding from infancy forward. He called his approach genetic epistemology - tracing the origins of knowledge itself. In 1934, as Director of the International Bureau of Education, he warned that only education could prevent societal collapse. Two decades later, in 1955, he founded the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva while teaching at the University of Geneva, directing it until his death in 1980. The center's productivity earned it the nickname "Piaget's factory" in academic circles. His constructivist theory - the idea that learners actively build knowledge rather than passively receive it - spread through the 1960s and turned developmental psychology into a major field. By century's end, only B. F. Skinner had been cited more.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Psychology, #Switzerland, #Europe, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **1980** - Died
- **1979** - Balzan Prize
- **1976** - Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education
- **1972** - Erasmus Prize
- **1971** - Award for Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology
- **1969** - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
- **1963** - Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Aix-Marseille
- **1947** - Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Paris
- **1896** - Born

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