Understanding Piaget

Good places to start

Ginsburg, H., & Opper, S. (1969). Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development: an Introduction. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Key original sources

Inhelder, B. and Piaget, J. (1958). The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Inhelder, B. and Piaget, J. (1964). The Early Growth of Logic in the Child: Classification and Seriation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1951). Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1952). The Child's Conception of Number. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1953). The Origins of Intelligence in Children. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1955). The Child's Construction of Reality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1971b). Biology and Knowledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Piaget, J. (1985). The Equilibration of Cognitive Structures: The Central Problem of Intellectual Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Piaget, J. (2001). Studies in Reflecting Abstraction. Hove: Psychology Press.

Must-read books - interpretations, commentaries, collections & related works

Butterworth, G. (ed.) (1982). Infancy and Epistemology: An Evaluation of Piaget's Theory. Brighton: Harvester Press.

Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Flavell, J.H. (1963). The Developmental Psychology of Jean Piaget. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Furth, H.G. (1969). Piaget and Knowledge. Theoretical Foundations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall

Gablik, S. (1977). Progress in Art. New York: Rizzoli.

Ginsburg, H., & Opper, S. (1969). Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development: an Introduction. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Kitchener, R.F. (1986). Piaget’s Theory of Knowledge. Yale: Yale University Press.

Parker, S.T., and McKinney, M.L. (1999). Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Smith, L. (1993). Necessary Knowledge: Piagetian Perspectives on Constructivism. Hove, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Uzgiris, I. and Hunt, J.McV. (1975). Assessment in Infancy: Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Key papers & discussions

Damerow, P. (1995). Prehistory and cognitive development. Invited Lecture to the Twenty-Fifth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Berkeley, June 1–3, 1995.

Lourenço, O. and Machado, A. (1996). In defense of Piaget’s theory: A reply to ten common criticisms. Psychological Review, 103, 1: 143–164.

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Cognitive Development

Genetic Epistemologist

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