{"product_id":"jean-piaget-josh-graham-9798190612912","title":"Jean Piaget: A Gateway to His Life, Ideas, and Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePour water from a short glass into a tall one, and a young child will tell you there is now more to drink - and mean it. That small mistake is a window into how the human mind is built.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Piaget spent sixty years taking children seriously as thinkers. Trained as a naturalist who catalogued molluscs before he had heard a lecture in psychology, he noticed something in a Paris testing lab that everyone else was scoring as failure: children of the same age got the same questions wrong in the same way. Their errors were not gaps. They were evidence of a different, coherent logic - a mind in the act of construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean Piaget: A Gateway to His Life, Ideas, and Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear, human introduction to the man behind the four stages and the water glasses. It follows him from a lakeside boyhood in Neuchâtel to the Geneva laboratory where he turned the oldest question in philosophy - where does knowledge come from? - into something you could set on a table and watch a four-year-old answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Piaget really meant by his famous stages - and why the ages on the nursery-wall chart were always approximate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe simple, ingenious experiments (conservation, object permanence, the three mountains) that made an invisible mental structure visible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy he insisted a wrong answer is not an absence of knowledge but a report from a different and temporarily valid world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe fair, unflinching reckoning his work demands - the small samples, the tasks that underestimated the young, and Vygotsky's charge that he undervalued the social side of learning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat has been revised, and what endures: the idea that children build their understanding rather than absorb it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the \u003ci\u003ePioneers of Human Behaviour\u003c\/i\u003e series: premium, accessible, carefully researched gateways into the people who changed how we understand the mind. Quotations and key facts are checked against primary texts and trusted scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are a student, a teacher, a parent, or simply curious about how a mind comes to know anything at all, this is the honest, illuminating introduction to one of the most influential thinkers in the science of human development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190612912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Josh Graham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666082664703,"sku":"9798190612912","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3059bc1b-0aeb-441f-bfcc-86f1c27f29be.jpg?v=1792015539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jean-piaget-josh-graham-9798190612912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}