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How Children Become Moral Selves: Building Character and Promoting Citizenship in Education
Josephine Russell
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Description for How Children Become Moral Selves: Building Character and Promoting Citizenship in Education
Hardback. Examines moral responsiveness and thinking in a mixed gender class of primary school children, and offers a theoretical perspective on children's ability to think together about morality in a community of enquiry and on related issues of pedagogy. This book also tracks development in children's moral awareness. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: JMC; JNC; JNU. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
This book examines moral responsiveness and thinking in a mixed gender class of primary school children, and offers a theoretical perspective on children's ability to think together about morality in a community of enquiry and on related issues of pedagogy. It tracks development in children's moral awareness, looking at gains and losses from middle to late childhood, and focuses on cognitive skills, notions of moral rectitude, and interpersonal relationships and friendship. The study demonstrates how, through participation in a community of enquiry such as 'Thinking Time -- Philosophy with Children' (children sit in a circle, engaging in dialogue, with the ... Read more
This book examines moral responsiveness and thinking in a mixed gender class of primary school children, and offers a theoretical perspective on children's ability to think together about morality in a community of enquiry and on related issues of pedagogy. It tracks development in children's moral awareness, looking at gains and losses from middle to late childhood, and focuses on cognitive skills, notions of moral rectitude, and interpersonal relationships and friendship. The study demonstrates how, through participation in a community of enquiry such as 'Thinking Time -- Philosophy with Children' (children sit in a circle, engaging in dialogue, with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191757
SKU
V9781845191757
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About Josephine Russell
Josephine Russell is a teacher with experience of both primary and post-primary education. She received her PhD from St. Patrick's College, Dublin City University, and has a special interest in philosophical enquiry with children.
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