One of the main figures of the child study and progressive education movement in Europe.

Edouard Claparède was one of the leaders in the study and education of children in Europe in the early 1900s. He wrote on numerous subjects, including clinical neurology, perception, animal psychology, hypnosis, hysteria, psychological methodology, the association of ideas, sleep, play, emotions, the empirical control of mediums, the genesis of hypotheses, and the use of film in psychology; he also helped introduce psychoanalysis in the French-speaking world, and pioneered the psychological investigation of judicial testimony.

Claparède's reputation rests on his book Experimental Pedagogy and Psychology of the Child, a remarkable synthesis of the history, problems, and methods of the field, and on his creation in 1912 of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Geneva, a center for teacher education and developmental research that became a...