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Gauvain, Mary; Munroe, Robert L. – Child Development, 2009
This study examined how societal changes associated with modernization are related to cognitive development. Data were from 4 cultural communities that represented a broad range of traditional and modern elements: the Garifuna (Belize), Logoli (Kenya), Newars (Nepal), and Samoans (American Samoa). Naturalistic observations and the performances of…
Descriptors: Play, Samoan Americans, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development
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Rubinstein, Robert A. – Child Study Journal, 1980
The relationship of Piagetian level of cognitive development to field-independence-dependence was examined in 20 school children aged 10-17, in northern Belize, Central America. (MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Rubinstein, Robert A. – 1979
"Subtractive" bilingualism in Northern Belize is analyzed based on an extension of a model by Wallace Lambert. The impact of English language instruction on Spanish speaking children in Corozal Town, the northernmost urban center in the British colony of Belize, Central America, is described. This description extends an earlier account…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences