Product details
Biographical note
Richard Kohler worked as a secondary school teacher in the UK. After studying educational science, sociology and philosophy at Zürich 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.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.
Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Intellectual Biography
1. Piaget's Background
2. Piaget's Career as a Naturalist
3. Perturbations of Puberty
4. The Reconstruction of Identity
Part II: Critical Exposition of Piaget's Work
5. Early Psychological Work
6. Theological Foundations
7. The Social-psychological Work
8. The Pedagogic Work
9. The Biological Work
10. The Main Psychological Work
11. The Epistemological Work
12. Neither Retirement nor Resignation
Part III: The Reception and Influence Piaget's Work
13. The Reception
14. The Influence
Part IV: The Relevance of Piaget's Work Today
15. The Relevance of Piaget's Work Today
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
This series provides accounts of the work of seminal thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions, exploring the contribution and significance of the thinker’s central ideas and arguments and their relevance to educational thought today. With each book written by a leading philosopher in education, these volumes are definitive companions for students of education and the philosophy of education.
The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.