Talking about Right and Wrong
Parent-Child Conversations as Contexts for Moral Development
- Editors:
- Cecilia Wainryb, University of Utah
- Holly E. Recchia, Concordia University, Montréal
- Date Published: March 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107026308
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Though it is generally acknowledged that parents are directly implicated in how and what their children learn about right and wrong, little is known about how the process of moral socialization proceeds in the context of family life, and how it gets played out in actual parent-child conversations. This volume brings together psychological research conducted in different countries documenting how parents and their children of different ages talk about everyday issues that bear on right and wrong. More than 150 excerpts from real parent-child conversations about children's own good and bad behaviors and about broader ethical concerns that interest both parents and children, such as global warming or gender equality, provide a unique window into the moral-socialization process in action. Talking about Right and Wrong also underscores distinct psychological and sociocultural processes that explain how such everyday conversations may further, or hinder, children's moral development.
Read more- The first volume to assemble and present cutting-edge global research on the variety of parent-child conversations that serve as everyday contexts for children's moral development
- Excerpts from actual parent-child conversations offer an inside look into how parents and children talk about real-life moral issues and helps bring the moral-socialization processes to life
- Considers how attachment, socialization, social cognition, identity and culture undergird the processes by which everyday parent-child conversations can further (or hinder) children's moral development
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'Common sense tells us that parents teach morality as part of raising their children but developmental theory tells us that children actively construct morality in the course of social interaction. In Talking about Right and Wrong, top contemporary researchers show us how to reconcile these two views of moral development.' David Moshman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
See more reviews'This volume provides a new and much needed perspective on research about relationships between children and parents. Instead of the common emphasis on how parents influence children's moral development, the wide-ranging chapters in this volume explore how children and parents interact regarding morality through their conversations. The editors have done a masterful job of bringing together leading researchers in discussions that will reshape how we think about the active roles of both children and parents in the process of the development of morality.' Elliot Turiel, University of California, Berkeley
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- Date Published: March 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107026308
- length: 474 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.8kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus. 10 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Parent-child conversations as contexts for moral development: why conversations, and why conversations with parents? Cecilia Wainryb and Holly E. Recchia
Part II. Parent-Child Conversations: Contents, Contexts, and Consequences:
2. Family talk about moral issues: the toddler and preschool years Judy Dunn and Claire Hughes
3. Remember drawing on the cupboard? New Zealand Māori, European, and Pasifika parents' conversations about children's transgressions Elaine Reese, Mele Taumoepeau and Tia Neha
4. Taiwanese parent-child conversations for moral guidance: uncovering the ubiquitous but enigmatic process Jin Li, Heidi Fung and Eva Chian-Hui Chen
5. Constructing moral, emotional, and relational understanding in the context of mother-child reminiscing Deborah Laible and Tia Panfile Murphy
6. Caught red-handed: how Italian parents engage children in moral discourse and action Laura Sterponi
7. Parent mediation of sibling conflict: addressing issues of fairness and morality Hildy Ross
8. Judging fairness in the face of gender stereotypes: examining the nature and impact of mother-child conversations Lacey J. Hilliard and Lynn S. Liben
9. Discussions of moral issues emerging in family conversations about science Maureen Callanan, Araceli Valle, Megan Luce and Jennifer Rigney
10. 'Did you apologize?' Moral talk in European American and Chinese immigrant mother-child conversations of peer experiences Qi Wang and Qingfang Song
11. Mother-child conversations about hurting others: supporting the construction of moral agency through childhood and adolescence Holly E. Recchia and Cecilia Wainryb
12. Voice and power: constructing moral agency through personal and intergenerational narratives Robyn Fivush, Natalie Merrill and Kelly Marin
Part III. Parent-Child Conversations: Processes and Mechanisms:
13. Moral development, conversation, and the development of internal working models Ross A. Thompson and Abby C. Winer
14. Parent-child conversations from the perspective of socialization theory Joan E. Grusec
15. Conversations in the home: the role of dialogue and resistance in children's emerging understandings of morality, convention, and the personal Larry Nucci
16. Constructing the good enough self: mother-child conversations and moral development from an identity framework Monisha Pasupathi
17. Placing discursive practices front and center: a sociocultural approach to the study of early socialization Peggy J. Miller.
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