The Essential Piaget: An Interpretive Reference and Guide

by Howard E. Gruber (Editor)

Here, truly, is the essential Piaget_a distillation of the eminent Genevan's extraordinary legacy to modern psychological knowledge. This generous selection of the most important of Piaget's writings, spanning a period of some seventy years, organizes the core of his remarkable contribution in a way that clarifies and illuminates his aims, ideas, and underlying themes.

Genres: Psychology, Education, Philosophy, Nonfiction

952 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 1977

About the author

Howard Ernest Gruber was a scholar of cognitive psychology who was noted for his books on the development of Darwin's thinking on evolution.

He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1943 and received his Ph.D. in psychology at Cornell in 1950. From 1967 to 1986, Dr. Gruber taught at Rutgers University, where he was the founding director of the Institute of Cognitive Studies. He also taught at the University of Colorado and, in the 1960's, at the New School for Social Research, where he rose to professor and department chairman at the Graduate School. He later held the Piaget Chair at the University of Geneva and until 2000 was an adjunct professor at Columbia's Teachers College.

Reviews

[Donald Thomann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very technical and advanced-level book. It's definitely not light reading, and it requires a pretty thorough understanding of the field of psychology in general. The breadth of the subject matter covered and the extensive psychological/ technical vocabulary made it hard to penetrate. I found myself Googling definitions of words every 10 minutes. Despite my limited comprehension of the more abstract/ theoretical material. reading about Piaget's experiments with children and learning about how knowledge structures and the capacity for human intelligence develop was quite entertaining.

[Willa · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can't really read this book - it's too heavy, big and dense. But it's a great resource for writing papers and getting an understanding the different facets of Piaget's magnificent work.