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Mind changers : Programme 2 : Jean Piaget (Radio 4 series: Landmark experiments in psychology)

The second programme in the series looks at the work of child psychologist Jean Piaget who believed children learned through play. Subsequent experiments allowing children to imagine different social, rather than spatial, situations have had very different results. Claudia Hammond asks how far we should rely on Piaget's findings today.

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Published: 
2003
Author: 
Claudia Hammond
Margaret Donaldson
Sue Eagle
John Flavell
Martin Hughes
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Karin Murris
John Oates
Peter Sutherland
Jacques Voneche
Publisher: 
British Broadcasting Corporation