Judy
At 08:12 AM 2/3/98 -0800, you wrote:
>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
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Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183