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Morality in preschool interaction: Teacher’s strategies for working with children’s morality

Morality in preschool interaction: Teacher’s strategies for working with children’s morality. Eva Johansson Göteborg University. Aim. What moral values and norms do teachers encourage children to develop?

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Morality in preschool interaction: Teacher’s strategies for working with children’s morality

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  1. Morality in preschool interaction: Teacher’s strategies for working withchildren’smorality Eva Johansson Göteborg University

  2. Aim • What moral values and norms do teachers encourage children to develop? • How do teacher’s attend to the values that children express in their daily interaction with teachers and peers ?

  3. Ontology:Guides the investigation and pedagogical practise

  4. The life-world: that world that precedes knowledge, of which knowledge always speaks /…/ Merleau-Ponty, 1962, p. ix

  5. Morality - a result of intersubjectivity

  6. Methods • Hermeneutics • Interactions • Interviews • Moral situations • Moral values and norms

  7. To understand Others • To understand a friend’s emotional feelings • To understand connections between actions and emotions • To share and support other’s emotions • To understand others’ perspectives

  8. To learn morally good strategies • To express one’s own - and respect others’ wills • To express a moral message • Negotiate • To compensate • To share • Wait for one’s turn

  9. Set limits • To prevent and to admonish • Consequences - to threaten and to condemn • To avoid moral conflicts • Preventing children’s morality

  10. Children’s morality develops through: • empathy • cognition • sanctions and guilt • understanding others’ perspectives

  11. Being a good teacher?

  12. The good child

  13. How can teachers help children to extend their moral learning in pre-school?

  14. A question of perspectives

  15. Responsiveness: Understanding the other’s condition Act for the good of others L. Blum 1994

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