Date of Award

6-1967

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

George F. Donovan

Second Advisor

Albert G. Thompson

Abstract

For forty years Jean Piaget, a French psychologist, and his collaborators have been producing volumes dealing with the concept formation of children. They have studied number, geometry, causality, space, the world, reality, judgment and reasoning. Their research has pointed the way to unrecognized pedagogical possibilities. We can only grasp a glimpse of the true extent of their work in the light of our present knowledge. Everyone in education realizes that Piaget has something relevant to say concerning the teaching of children. Criticism for his method of experimenting and reporting has been prevalent. Piaget uses a combination of observation and interview when he does his studies. He seldom gives statistical information to clarify the number of children he uses and he fails to tell us at what level they are tested. We turn to Jean Piaget for ideas rather than statistics . "He believes in a universal order which suggests that there is a single unity of all things biological, social, and psychological in living as well as in non-living things." All science, he feels, is interrelated. Piaget claims that a theorem established in one branch of science is directly relevant to the laws and principles, of other branches.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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