Children's Social and Moral Reasoning

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 567-583

  Helwig, Charles C ^a   Turiel, Elliot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative view on moral development, in keeping with a long line of philosophical analyses from aristotle to kant and to modern versions; Basic concepts of personal autonomy and individual choice are likely to serve as a foundation for more abstract notions of individual freedom; Children also distinguish between different situations when evaluating the acceptability of race based exclusion; Children also have been found to distinguish morality from authority and legal rules; Children develop an understanding of others as intentional beings motivated by beliefs and desires that, in some situations; Children's judgments regarding different aspects of morality and social convention; Children's social and moral reasoning; Development of children's autonomy is an area that has received much attention in recent research; Development of social and moral judgments; Study of morality has been approached from different perspectives within several disciplines

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EID: 84861676122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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