Tony Eaude

New Perspectives on Young Children's Moral Education (eBook, ePUB)

Developing Character through a Virtue Ethics Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 act and interact matters? How can character, virtues and value help young children internalise qualities associated with living 'a good life'?

Challenging many current assumptions about ethics and education, Tony Eaude suggests that a moral dimension runs through every aspect of life and that ethics involves learning to act and interact appropriately, based on an 'ethic of care' and enduring qualities and attributes, to equip children to resist strong external pressures. Drawing accessibly on research in neuroscience and psychology, he discusses how young children learn, highlighting the role of emotion, culture, example, habituation and feedback. Small actions can help to develop agency, empathy and thoughtfulness and a sense of moral identity, with an increasing emphasis on self-regulation, a vocabulary of ethics and intrinsic motivation. Eaude explores how character, virtues and values can help young children and adults to recognize and internalize qualities associated with living 'a good life'. He identifies how adults and learning environments can support these processes and shows why an inclusive approach is needed, rather than focusing on these topics only in particular settings, programmes or lessons. Recognising pitfalls and dilemmas, Eaude argues that an approach based on virtue ethics and an apprenticeship model is suitable in school and other settings, both religious and otherwise, internationally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472596499
• Artikelnr.: 43978206

Autorenporträt

Tony Eaude is an experienced independent researcher, mainly working with teachers of young children and teacher educators. He was for nine years the headteacher of a multicultural first school, before studying for a doctorate at Oxford University, UK. He has published extensively, especially on how young children develop and learn and the implications for teachers. Details of his work are available on www.edperspectives.org.uk

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: The Context of Young Children's Moral Education 1. The
Landscape of Moral Education 2. The Basis of Ethics 3. The Changing Social
and Cultural Context 4. The Educational Context Part II: The Roots of Moral
Development 5. How Young Children Learn 6. Culture, Identity and Motivation
7. Learning to Live a Good Life Part III: Routes into Moral Education 8.
Inclusive Learning Environments 9. Encouraging Empathy and Thoughtfulness
10. Moving Beyond Separate Programmes 11. Gathering the Threads
Bibliography Index