Jean Paiget

  • Born

    Jean was born 1896
  • Publishes his 1st scientific paper.

    At age 11, jean published his first paper on Albino sparrows.
  • Graduates

    He graduates high school. this was the start of his philosophical journey, for at this time he published 2 essays.
  • Doctorate

    He earned his doctorate in natural science.
  • Director

    He becomes the director of studies at the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
  • Studies

    He began his studies on children for his book "The Language and Thought of the Child"
  • Paris

    He started working in Paris focusing on learning how children think and learn.
  • Children

    Jean begins observing his own children, as the first, Jacqueline is born. He studies their development. This begins his theories.
  • Books

    He publishes his first 5 books by this year, one of them being "The Moral Judgment of the Child"
  • Concrete Operational Stage

    Jean discovered that children can begin to preform operations with symbols from the ages of 7 to 11.
  • Sensorimotor Stage

    He determined that toddlers and infants learn through their senses. He also determined that they begin understand objects even when that object isn't around.
  • Preoperational Stage

    He found that from the ages of 2-7 children use thoughts and images to play imagination.
  • Formal Operational Stage

    Jean Paiget discovered that at ages 12 and older you are able to think hypothetically and abstractly.
  • Award

    He is awarded a degree in Paris from the Sorbonne.
  • Death

    Jean Piaget dies due to unknown causes.