Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute
The Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau - also École des sciences de l'éducation - was founded in 1912 as a private university for pedagogy on the initiative of Édouard Claparède . It has belonged to the University of Geneva since 1929 and has formed the Faculty of Psychology and Education there since 1975 .
The founder chose the name in the hometown of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), although he was not well suffered there: Rousseau showed the need to observe and know the nature of a child and to be aware of his needs and interests be. This is where the Geneva School of Psychology grew up under Jean Piaget , whose developmental psychology is still respected worldwide today.
In addition to their studies, this institute enables many educational scientists to orientate themselves, to document and to train themselves in the scientific method. It is a research and information center that stimulates innovation in education. Among its directors were Jean Piaget (1929–1963), Pierre Bovet and Adolphe Ferrière . For a long time it was closely linked to the Bureau international d'éducation (IBE). Attached to it is an archive with the transferred private libraries of several researchers, which the educational historian Daniel Hameline directed for a long time.
literature
- Rita Hofstetter, Marc Ratcliff, Bernard Schneuwly: Cent ans de vie 1912–2012. La FPSE, héritière de l'institut L'institut Rousseau et de l'ère Piageètienne. Georg, Geneva 2011, ISBN 978-2-8257-1008-1 .
- Nadine Fink, Nora Natchkova (eds.): Histoires vives d'une faculté. Récits d'acteurs et d'actrices de la Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation. Gobet. Antipodes, Lausanne 2012, ISBN 978-2-88901-082-0 .