Woods Children's Moral Lives

An Ethnographic and Psychological Approach
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32620-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

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 thecomplex moral issues and disputes they routinely negotiate
* The first ethnography of childhood to focus on children'smorality in the peer group
* Case studies shed light on the psychological, social andcultural processes by which children and adults reach starklydifferent moral judgments of the same situations
* Combines qualitative insights and quantitative data intorecommendations for practice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Ruth

Über Autor(innen)

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.