Associated Societies Worldwide

The Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA) is a multidisciplinary, non-profit association formed in the early 1980s. The goals of the Association are to foster and promote research on human development at all stages of the lifespan, including prenatal development, infancy and childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The association promotes the application of research findings to inform professional practise in various disciplines, as well as to inform social policy concerned with individual development, families and communities.

Members’ research interests are varied and include ageing, infant development, special needs, social development, learning, developmental psychopathology, adolescence, adult development, cognitive development, early childhood, motor and perceptual development, children’s rights, family processes, parenting, lifespan development, reading and language development.

Website: https://www.ahda.org.au/

The Centre Jean Piaget was established in July 2021 within the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva, as a joint initiative of the Faculty and the Fondation Archives Jean Piaget, an institution created in 1974 by Bärbel Inhelder and Olivier Reverdin to preserve the papers of Piaget and the Geneva School. It brings together, in a single structure, this documentary heritage and contemporary research on knowledge and development.

The Centre is organized around two complementary divisions. The Historical Sciences Division is constituted by the Archives Jean Piaget, which have worked in close association with the University of Geneva for more than fifty years and today form the Centre’s historical, documentary, and archival component; its work covers epistemology, the history of science, archival research, and the digital dissemination of Piaget’s writings. The Cognitive Sciences Division supports current research on development, learning, and the construction of knowledge. Together, the two poles connect historical and epistemological inquiry with experimental and theoretical work.

The holdings of the Archives include original and unpublished materials relating to Piaget and the Geneva School: manuscripts, correspondence, experimental protocols, photographs, films, and teaching materials. They also hold the archives of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology and the Piaget family papers, together with an exceptionally extensive collection of secondary literature on Piaget’s work, genetic epistemology, developmental psychology, and the research of the Geneva School. These materials are progressively cataloged and made available to researchers worldwide.

A major ongoing initiative is the Édition Numérique des Œuvres de Jean Piaget (ENOP), an open-access digital edition of Piaget’s published works. Once completed, it will be the first complete edition ever produced, with more than 40,000 pages, comprising 113 books and over 630 articles and book chapters, reproduced in their original languages, without translations. ENOP also offers advanced search, textometric analysis, and visualization tools, and includes the most comprehensive publicly available Zotero bibliography of Piaget’s original-language publications. The site is currently in beta.

The Centre edits Episteme, Journal of the Jean Piaget Centre, a peer-reviewed, open-access publication devoted to development, education, epistemology, and the history of knowledge. It also organizes seminars, international conferences, and exhibitions, with recordings of many of these events available on its YouTube channel.

Website: https://www.unige.ch/centre-piaget/en

ENOP (beta): https://oeuvres.unige.ch/piaget/

Zotero bibliography: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5024983/piaget-enop/library

Episteme, Journal of the Jean Piaget Centre: https://oap.unige.ch/journals/epia/index

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdkIOZqN-y6HSQZYy3o_Rg

The International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) is an international forum for theoretical, meta-theoretical and philosophical discussions in psychology, with a focus on contemporary psychological debates. Founded in the early 1980s, its objective is to stimulate theoretical arguments and innovations, to foster integration across areas and traditions of research, and to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to psychological questions. It aims to serve as the stage for the discussion of new theoretical ideas and conceptual frameworks, for the critical engagement of different theoretical approaches, and for discussions concerning the relation of theoretical psychology to other disciplines, to the history of psychology and to the philosophy of knowledge. 

Website: https://istpsychology.org/ 

The Jean Piaget Foundation for Psychological and Epistemological Research was established in Geneva in 1976 by Jean Piaget. Its purpose is to promote research inspired by Piaget’s work, particularly in the fields of genetic psychology, epistemology, and the development of knowledge.

The Foundation contributes to the preservation and dissemination of Piaget’s intellectual legacy by supporting scholarly initiatives and facilitating access to his writings. Over the years, it has supported research fellowships, advanced research projects, scholarly meetings, and publications related to Piaget’s work and the research program of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology.

Its website offers a selection of Piaget’s texts, including many that had become rare, out of print, or difficult to obtain. It also provides bibliographical, biographical, historical, and scholarly resources concerning Piaget’s life, work, and intellectual development.

Through these activities, the Foundation has played an important role in making Piaget’s work accessible to researchers, students, and the wider public, while supporting its continued study and international discussion.

Website: https://www.fondationjeanpiaget.ch/fjp/site/en/traduction/accueil/index.php