First Published in 1999. Readers will find in this book no direct analysis of child morality as it is practised in home and school life or in children's societies. It is the moral judgment that we propose to investigate, not moral behaviour or sentiments. With this aim in view, a large number of children from the Geneva and Neuchatel schools were questioned and held conversations with them, similar to those we had had before on their conception of the world and of causality. The present volume contains the results of these conversations.
The Moral Judgement of the Child
This seminal book by this century's most important development psychologist chronicles the evolution of children's moral thinking from preschool to adolescence, tracing the concepts of lying, cheating, adult authority, punishment, and ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Originally published in 1969 this book analyzes the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents.
While more efficient learning of grapheme-phoneme rules allowed the poor readers to more closely approximate normal readers on whole-word learning, they nevertheless had more difficulty than the normals on the latter task.
How- and when- do children distinguish right from wrong? Several prominent psychologists and a moral philosopher join in these essays to confront this issue and related questions and to clarify the controversies surrounding them.
This reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource.
Originally published in 1969 this book analyzes the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents.