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Edith Ackermann
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| Born | April 23, 1946 Switzerland
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| Died | December 24, 2016 (aged 69–70) Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| Education | University of Geneva |
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| Fields | Developmental psychology |
| Institutions | MIT Media Lab |
Edith K. Ackermann (April 23, 1946 – December 24, 2016) was a Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. A graduate of the University of Geneva, and a protege to Jean Piaget, she held permanent and visiting positions at several institutions in the United States and Europe, including the MIT Media Lab.
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Ackermann's career focused on developmental psychology, play and the influence of technology on childhood learning. She worked for the MIT Media Lab with constructionism expert Seymour Papert. Using Papert's Logo programming language, Ackermann and Papert did work for The Lego Group that led to the development of Lego Mindstorms.[4] She was also a visiting scientist at the MIT School of Architecture, was Honorary Professor of Psychology the University of Aix-Marseille I, and was a visiting professor at the University of Siena in Italy. In addition, she worked closely with the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[5][6][7] Ackermann was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium.[8]
Ackermann conducted early research that attempted to reconcile Piagetian principles with situated learning.[9] Reanalyzing Piaget's work with the water-level task in terms of how children move from concrete thinking to abstraction, Ackermann wrote that Piaget's theory deals with how children become detached from concrete objects, where other theorists focused on the children's attachment to concrete items.[10] In other work with Marina Bers, Ackermann studied hospitalized pediatric heart patients and found that they benefited from an interactive storytelling environment.[11]