TY - BOOK AU - Piaget,Jean AU - Gruber,Howard E AU - Vonèche,J.Jacques TI - The essential Piaget SN - 0710087780 PY - 1977/// CY - London PB - Routledge and Kegan Paul KW - Child cognition KW - Child psychology KW - Child development N1 - Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. [861]-866; Early biology -- Transitional years : from biology to philosophy -- The Paris period -- Egocentric thought in the child -- The mind of the baby : from action to thought -- Logico-mathematical operations -- The representation of reality : action, space, and geometry, time, movement, and speed -- Figurative aspects of thought : perception, imagery, and memory -- Piaget on education -- Piaget's philosophy -- Factors of development : biology and knowledge N2 - This is a selection of the most important of Piaget's writings spanning a period of some seventy years. These writings cover Piaget's contribution to modern psychological knowledge in a way that clarifies and illuminates his aims, ideas, and underlying themes ER -