Re: A Favor...

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 15:02:01 -0500

Mary, I'm sure others will provide more relevant
cites, but the study that leaps to mind for me is
Margaret Donaldson's (year?) book, Children's Minds,
in which she showed that kids in THIS culture
are taking perspective before Piaget, on the
basis of experimentation, would have it possible.

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
>
>
>
>

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