Rockefeller Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific
Research, Piaget founded the International Centre of Genetic Epistemology
at Geneva University, which he continued to direct after he retired in
1971. He also held several positions with UNESCO at various times during
his life. Piaget died in Geneva on 16 September 1980. (Piaget & Garcia,
Piaget's work on concept formation in children falls into two main
phases: an early phase (from 1924 to 1937) in which he established the
basic differences between thought processes in children and those in
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