Children's Moral Lives : An Ethnographic and Psychological Approach

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