Piaget proposed that children’s intellectual development is not simply about accumulating more information, but involves qualitative changes in how children think.

Jean William Fritz Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive and epistemological view are together …

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four different stages of mental development. Cognitive theory not only focus on understanding how children acquire …

References It is hard to say, of Piaget's many works, which are most significant or interesting, but here goes:

Piaget: the growth of knowledge is a progressive construction of embedded structures of thinking. Earlier, less powerful structures of thinking are included in later, more powerful ones.

Piaget developed an intense interest in identifying and classifying how children learn when he was at the University. This idea, called cognitive development, explains how a person’s ability to think, learn, …

This chapter sets out with a brief professional profile of Jean Piaget as a cognitivist theorist. It then provides some of the historical antecedents to the Stage Theory of Cognitive Development.