Genetic epistemology
Epistemología genética
- Date
- 1950 · confidence low
- Place
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Jean Piaget
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A theoretical and methodological framework studying the origin and development of knowledge from the child's interaction with its environment, created by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, uniting constructivism and structuralism.
What it led to
- founding of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva
- influence on developmental psychology and constructivist pedagogy
- later impact on artificial intelligence and cognitive science