A Favor...

Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:12:21 -0800

I am asking for a favor- one reference I can be likely to find at a major
University Library that:

Describes a study/or studies where cross-cultural research showed that the
purported (then) cultural universality of Piagetian stages (and their
invariance) needs revision as a theory

IN a moment of madness, I told my Ed Psy class that the idea that children
all over the world go through stages characterized by the same kind of
thought and in the same order was......

oh oh!

"hooey!"

The class went a bit nuts, well not really all 50 people but a couple of
folks were really quite perturbed by the "hooey" part. And I am meeting the
class again
Wednesday, and would really appreciate a tip to speed up my library research.

I would like to be able to show in some level of detail the argument I
should'have made more carefully about culture/cognition/stages.

Thanks!!!

Mary

Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education/UBC
Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/index.htm