Mary: a quick 'brain dump'...
My recollection is that the evidence seemed to be that the appearance of
the evidence did not occur at the same ages or necessarily always go
through all the apparent stages, but that the order of things seemed pretty
commonly seen.
I believe that in the 70's Robert Karplus and colleagues across the world
did a cross-cultural study based on paper-and-pencil "Piagetian tasks". I
think that you might be able to find the results in either Science
Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, International Journal
of Science Education or School Science and Mathematics.
I recall some work by Piaget or colleagues looking at nomadic people in
Iran, but I do not know where it was published.
Most recent neo-Piagetian work that I think is pretty carefully done is by
Robbie Case. You might look in his book: Intellectual Development: Birth
to Adulthood on Academic Press. This is about 10 years old. You could
look at it and any more recent work of his.
Hope this helps.
Dewey
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