ABSTRACT
Piaf, Édith (1994) L’Hymne à l’amour, Paris: Livre de poche (the words of the songs recorded by Piaf).
Duclos, P. and Martin, G. (1993) Piaf, Paris: Éditions du Seuil (a well-researched biography).
A developmental psychologist, specializing in the maturation of children’s intelligence, but trained as a biologist, Piaget first became interested in psychology through observing the intellectual development of his own children, who provide the evidence for his earliest studies, such as The Language and Thought of the Child (Le Langage et la pensée chez l’enfant) (1923). His analysis of the emergent process of reasoning in children through a mechanism of ‘reflexive abstraction’ based on their interaction with the material world led him to a generalized theory of knowledge which he called Genetic Epistemology (Épistémologie génétique) (1970). His thinking has been widely influential in educational theory and has inspired controversial new methods of teaching basic logical and mathematical skills to primary school children.
