{"product_id":"9781845191757","title":"How Children Become Moral Selves: Building Character and Promoting Citizenship in Education","description":"This book examines moral responsiveness and thinking in a mixed gender class of primary school children, and offers a theoretical perspective on children's ability to think together about morality in a community of inquiry and on related issues of pedagogy. The book tracks development in children's moral awareness, looking at gains and losses from middle to late childhood, and focuses on cognitive skills, notions of moral rectitude, and interpersonal relationships and friendship. The study demonstrates how, through participation in a community of inquiry - such as allowing children to sit in a circle, engaging in dialogue with the teacher as facilitator - children become more thoughtful and develop respect and responsiveness as well as other traits of character that are central to democratic citizenship. The author analyzes children's thinking in response to a wide range of content, such as issues of justice, freedom, responsibility, rights and duties, inclusiveness, and friendship. Gender differences are also examined. Along with the increasing emphasis on education for citizenship in the school curriculum comes an awareness that \"children's voice\" and \"agency\" need to be respected and promoted. In presenting a new paradigm - research with rather than on children - the author demonstrates the potential of children to reflect in a concerned way on issues that affect them and society as a whole.","brand":"Sussex Academic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032707023088,"sku":"9781845191757","price":37.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781845191757_p0.jpg?v=1763747328","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781845191757","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}