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1917 |
Ernst von Glasersfeld is born in Munich with Austrian Citizenship
due to his father being an attaché of the Austrian Embassy
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1927 |
After spending his childhood in Prague and South Tyrol,
Glasersfeld is sent to Zuoz College, Switzerland, at the age of 10
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1936 |
Having finished school he studies mathematics, first at Zurich
Universiy, then at the University of
Vienna
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1937 |
Glasersfeld works as a skiing instructor in
Australia
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1939 |
Shortly before the beginning of World War II, Glasersfeld and his
wife move to Ireland, where he becomes a farmer.
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1947 |
After
World War II's end he moves to Meran (in South Tyrol) where he meets Silvio
Ceccato and starts
to work
as a journalist
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1963 |
Glasersfeld is in charge of a scientifical project in artificial
speech analysis in Milano
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1966 |
The
scientifical project moves from Milano to Athens, Georgia (USA)
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1970 |
Glasersfeld becomes Assistant Professor at the Department for
Psychology at the University of Georgia
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1971 |
He
studies the possibilities of interaction with primates and
therefor developes "Yerkish", a language for use by
primates
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1972 |
The
reading of
Piaget finally leads to his Theory of Knowledge, Radical
Constructivism, and
its specific concepts
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1972 |
Together with Leslie Steffe, a psychologist, Glasersfeld designs and
executes teaching experiments in mathematics education
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1987 |
Glasersfeld retires from his job as a professor for cognitive psychology at
the University of Georgia
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1987 |
Although he already
retired from active work, Glasersfeld remains asissting the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University
of Massachusetts
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1991 |
He receives the Warren McCulloch Memorial Award
of the American Society for
Cybernetics
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1997 |
The
University of Klagenfurt
confers a honorary doctorate on Glasersfeld
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2002 |
Glasersfeld
receives the Reconnaissance du mérite scientifique der Université du Québec in Montréal
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Publications
of Ernst von Glasersfeld
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