Children's Moral Lives

£35.95

Children's Moral Lives

An Ethnographic and Psychological Approach

Age groups: children Sociology Social and cultural anthropology Psychology Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Author: Ruth Woods

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Published on: 2nd July 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 492 Kb

ISBN: 9781118326206


Children’s Moral Lives makes use of case studies, observation, interviews and questionnaires to offer a fascinating, behind-the-scenes view of children’s school lives and the complex moral issues and disputes they routinely negotiate

Key Features

  • The first ethnography of childhood to focus on children’s morality in the peer group
  • Case studies shed light on the psychological, social and cultural processes by which children and adults reach starkly different moral judgments of the same situations
  • Combines qualitative insights and quantitative data into recommendations for practice

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