René Zazzo
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René Zazzo (1910 - 1995) was a French psychologist and pedagogue.
[edit] Biography
Zazzo was born in Paris in a modest family. After obtaining a doctorate of Letters in the Sorbonne (1933-1933), on the councils of Meyerson and of Henri Wallon, hw obtains a grant to study in the laboratory of Gesell at Yale University, where he specializes in child psychology.
On its return, Zazzo enters to CNRS and integrates the laboratory of Psychobiology of the child of the Practical School of the High Studies. When German enters Paris, it directs the laboratory of psychopathology of the Hospital Henri Rousselle. It publishes its first book during the war, devoted to a study of the pioneers of American psychology (1942) before entering Resistance.
In 1945, Zazzo, always protected from Walloon, is requested to found the first services of school psychology, thus prolonging the work of insertion of psychology in the education of Binet: however, its wish is to prevent the school failures rather than to detect the defective children. It teaches at the same time at the Institute of Psychology, the National Institute for the Vocational guidance and succeeds Wallon with the head of the laboratory of EPHE in 1950 before becoming president of the French Company of Psychology in 1955 and 1977.
The essence of its research relates to the child psychology; initially, it is interested in team in the problems of dyslexia and debility. Considering the development of children considered to be weak, Zazzo proposes the concept of heterochrony oligophrene, in order to show that this development, compared with that of normal children, is done at various speeds according to the psychobiological sector concerned.
Joining again with a certain psychology of the conscience, majority of research which it produces between 1950 and 1980 turn around what it regards as the principal problem of psychology, that of the identity: how does a person build itself? The fields in which it works (gemellity, early imitation and recognition of oneself) appear various attempts to bring answers to this question.
