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.

Richard Kohler is Lecturer at the Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland.

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