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Jean Piaget
By (Author) Richard Kohler
Series edited by Professor Richard Bailey
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
9th October 2014
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
370.92
Paperback
336
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
476g
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 Piagets 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 Piagets theories and analyses the influence this had upon the various areas of his research and reflections, particularly in relation to education.
Richard Kohler worked as a secondary school teacher in the UK. After studying educational science, sociology and philosophy at Zrich University, he wrote his PhD thesis on Piaget. He worked as a lecturer at various Universities of Teacher Education, Switzerland, and currently teaches at the Thurgau University of Teacher Education in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.