Jean Piaget

Swiss developmental psychologist (1896–1980) whose theory of genetic epistemology argued that children build their own understanding of the world through active interaction with it, in developmental stages, rather than absorbing knowledge transmitted by a teacher — the school of thought usually called constructivism.

Matters to this vault as the figure Seymour Papert trained under in Geneva before extending Piaget's constructivism into constructionism — knowledge built most effectively while a learner builds something real and shareable in the world, most sharply expressed in Papert's line "In my vision, the child programs the computer." Piaget's name recurs across the vault's Papert cluster as the theorist that inversion is built against and extends.

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