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New perspectives on young children's moral education : developing character through a virtue ethics approach /
New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education explores how to approach young children's moral education in a world of uncertainty and change. What is moral education? How do young children learn to act and interact appropriately? How do we enable children to recognise that how they...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- HalfTitle
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Context of Young Children's Moral Education
- 1 The Landscape of Moral Education
- Introducing the language of morality and ethics
- What does moral education entail?
- Pitfalls to avoid, dilemmas to address
- Recent debates on young children's moral development
- 2 The Basis of Ethics
- Why act in any particular way?
- Relying on rules, religion or rights?
- Living a good life?
- Searching for happiness or meaning?
- 3 The Changing Social and Cultural Context
- Looking back fifty years
- Exploring social and cultural change
- Considering the impact on children
- Preparing for an uncertain future
- 4 The Educational Context
- Education as a moral practice
- Recent trends in educational policy and practice
- Underlying assumptions about young children and learning and teaching
- Implications for moral education
- Part II The Roots of Moral Development
- 5 How Young Children Learn
- Lessons from neuroeducational research
- Attachment, anxiety and agency
- Imitation, feedback and habit
- Self-regulation and choice
- 6 Culture, Identity and Motivation
- Socialization and identity
- Understanding and responding to other people
- Rewards and sanctions
- Mindsets, goals and relationships
- 7 Learning to Live a Good Life
- Character, virtues and values
- Are values and virtues universal?
- Whose values, which virtues for an uncertain future?
- Implications for how young children learn to live a good life
- 8 Inclusive Learning Environments
- The influence of learning environments
- Hospitable space and the moral order
- Boundaries, routines and rules
- Working across all subject areas
- 9 Encouraging Empathy and Thoughtfulness
- Play, playfulness and drama
- Stories
- Using language.
- Expectations and example
- 10 Moving beyond Separate Programmes
- Separate programmes
- Balancing conflicting priorities
- Working in partnership
- Towards a virtue ethics approach
- 11 Gathering the Threads
- Implications for ethics
- Implications for children
- Implications for adults
- Implications for policy
- Bibliography
- Index.