Philosophy with children as and for moral education
Cassidy, Claire; Figueiredo, Florian and Mendonça, Dina, eds. (2022) Philosophy with children as and for moral education. In: Conceptions of Childhood and Moral Education in Philosophy for Children. Kindheit - Bildung - Erziehung, Philosophische Perspektiven . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 13-28. ISBN 9783662641798 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64180-4_2)
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Abstract
Moral education takes many guises, often taking place in schools, arguably because it is easier to socialise children into a desired way of being (Biesta, 2015). This assumes a particular view of the child, one that sees her as an entity to be moulded into what she will become, or what society wants her to become. Lipman (2003) advocates the need for a moral education that allows children to be part of a community. Such a view is premised on a different view of the child, one that sees her as being-in-and-of-the-world (Kennedy, 2010; Murris, 2013; Cassidy & Mohr Lone, 2020). Childism, that calls for a ‘profound ethical restructuring’ of society (Wall, 2010, p.3), may offer a perspective to moral education that allows us to strive for morally educated citizens. This chapter proposes that practical Philosophy with Children, as a pedagogy of compassion, has the potential to enable children to reflect on the world in which they live, what it means to live well and to take action towards that goal.
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Cassidy, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3088-1721; Figueiredo, Florian and Mendonça, Dina-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 79595 Dates: DateEvent1 January 2022Published1 January 2022Published Online27 August 2021AcceptedNotes: Published under the J.B. Metzler imprint as part of the Part of the Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven book series (KBEPP). Subjects: Education > Theory and practice of education
Philosophy. Psychology. ReligionDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education
Strategic Research Themes > Society and PolicyDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 14 Feb 2022 15:28 Last modified: 30 Sep 2024 00:13 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79595