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He worked out his ideas in
the context of philosophical discussion to study the children’s behaviour. He
based much of his work on detailed observation of limited numbers of
individuals, rather than studying large samples.
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Piaget placed great emphasis
on the ability of child activity to make sense of the world. According to him
children do not passively seek up information, but select and interpret what
they see, hear and feel in the world around them.
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Piaget undertook a number of
observations of children as well as numerous experiments to study their way
of thinking and development of language.
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Piaget interned in Genetic
Epistemology and in latter life he established The Centre for Genetic
Epistemology.
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