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 negotiateThe first ethnography of childhood to focus on children's morality in the peer groupCase studies shed light on the psychological, social and cultural processes by which children and adults reach starkly different moral judgments of the same situationsCombines qualitative insights and quantitative data into recommendations for practice