Ruth Woods

Gebundenes Buch

Children's Moral Lives

An Ethnographic and Psychological Approach

Beschreibung

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 * 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

Autor

Dr. Ruth Woods is currently a Research Fellow in a multidisciplinary team at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and an Associate of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. A psychologist by training, Ruth completed her PhD among anthropologists, learning to apply ethnographic methods to psychological questions. Ever since, she has combined quantitative and qualitative methods and analyses in innovative ways to improve our understanding of how children conceive and experience morality, aggression, friendship, and ethnic identity. She has published on these topics in a series of journal articles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781119974222
• ISBN-10: 1119974224
• Artikelnr.: 38600088

Rezensionen

Children's Moral Lives deserves to become a classic. Gorgeously written and theoretically up-to-date, Ruth Woods' gift to us is this up close account of the actual moral conflicts faced by children in a multicultural West London primary school. She helps us understand how moral communities are grounded in multiple and often conflicting values, including concerns for loyalty and respect for status as well as protection from harm. Start your readings on moral development with Jean Piaget but then be sure to read Ruth Woods." -- Richard A Shweder, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

"Far from being destined to specialists only, this rich and pleasant book is a tactful analysis of crucial social issues faced by pupils in school that mirror issues at play in the wider society around them. It will provide great interest for psychologists, anthropologists, educators, social workers as well as to anyone interested in schooling, children, youth and in the power dynamics operating in urban multicultural communities." (Anthropological Notebooks, 1 October 2014)