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Fan Yang – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Happiness is one of the most important parenting goals in today's modern society. To promote a happy childhood, we need to understand what happiness means to children. Contrary to the view that young children may equate happiness with satisfying material desires and experiencing simple pleasures, in this article, I review recent developmental…
Descriptors: Children, Psychological Patterns, Child Behavior, Ethics
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Romi Fajar Tanjung; Sigit Dwi Sucipto; Khadijah Lubis; Yuni Dwi Suryani; Minarsi Minarsi – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Children are unique humans and experience varied development even though they are of the same gene or the same sex but grow and develop according to their respective characteristics. Of course, this condition also demands adjustments in providing appropriate and varied stimuli and responses. This study aims to observe the growth and development of…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Longitudinal Studies, Stimuli
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Hannah Fisher-Grafy; Rinat Halabi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Social exclusion, a pervasive and impactful phenomenon particularly prominent during preadolescence, has traditionally been construed through a moral deficiency lens. This study departs from prevailing research trends, casting a novel light on the phenomenon in the context of normative moral development. It elucidates the role of social exclusion…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Moral Development, Children, Focus Groups
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Martins, Maria-José D.; Veiga-Simão, Ana-Margarida – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
This article aims to review and debate the concept of lying and the variables associated with it, such as the age of its emergence in infancy, developmental patterns in a life cycle, motives for lying, consequences on social relationships and contextual and educational factors. The paradoxical nature of this behaviour is also emphasized because it…
Descriptors: Deception, Ethics, Moral Development, Children
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Rizzo, Michael T.; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Social inequalities limit important opportunities and resources for members of marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Understanding the origins of how children construct their understanding of social inequalities in the context of their everyday peer interactions has the potential to yield novel insights into when--and how--individuals respond to…
Descriptors: Status, Justice, Disadvantaged, Children
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An, Christopher Joseph – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Compared with children, adults are widely assumed to possess more mature moral understanding thus justifying deference to their moral authority and testimony. This paper examines philosophical discussions regarding this child-adult moral relation and its implications for moral education, particularly accounts suggesting that the moral status of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Educational Philosophy, Children
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Foster, Ida; Wyman, Joshua; Talwar, Victoria – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
The development of children's lie-telling abilities is considered to be a social and cognitive milestone. While occasional lying is developmentally appropriate, the use of frequent, antisocial lies as a maladaptive problem-solving mechanism can indicate behaviour problems. Since lying is often considered a moral transgression, researchers should…
Descriptors: Deception, Ethics, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Smetana, Judith G.; Ball, Courtney L. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The patterning of 160 U.S. 4- to 9-year-olds' (M = 6.23 years, SD = 1.46) moral judgments regarding physical harm, psychological harm, and unfair resource distribution transgressions were examined in separate latent profile analyses. Judgments regarding physical harm yielded a single Prototypical profile, where transgressions were judged as very…
Descriptors: Children, Moral Values, Moral Development, Safety
Arthur, Ann M.; Smith, Michelle Howell; White, Andrew S.; Hawley, Leslie; Koziol, Natalie A. – Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, 2017
Designing instruments for children and youth that result in reliable and valid data requires consideration beyond calculating grade-level equivalence of the text. Very little methodological research has been conducted on the survey response processes of children and youth and there are no comprehensive guidelines informing instrument development…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Children, Adolescents, Child Development
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Midgette, Allegra – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
Previous research has found that when children engage in social and moral transgressions, they take steps to either remedy or explain their behavior. However, no prior systematic investigation has examined the strategies children employ to 'correct' their behavior in future situations. The present study employed a domain theory lens to investigate…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Child Development, Moral Values, Social Development
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Huda, Miftachul; Jasmi, Kamarul Azmi; Mustari, Mohd Ismail; Basiron, Bushrah; Hehsan, Aminudin; Shahrill, Masitah; Gassama, Saikou Kawsu – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
The technological advancement occurring in the world today has a potency to create positive and negative side effects especially on children. The positive side may entail increased empathy and acceptance of diversity through modelling the prosocial behaviours, while the negative can be manifest in aggressive behaviour, risky sexual behaviour, and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Skill Development, Technological Literacy, Empowerment
Walton, Marsha D.; Davidson, Alice J. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
"Conflict Narratives in Middle Childhood" presents evidence from twenty years of research, examining nearly 3,000 narratives from 1,600 children in eight settings in two countries about their own experiences with interpersonal conflict. Close readings, combined with systematic analysis of dozens of features of the stories reveal that…
Descriptors: Conflict, Personal Narratives, Children, Interpersonal Relationship
Phan, Huy P.; Ngu, Bing H. – Oxford University Press, 2019
"Teaching, Learning and Psychology" offers comprehensive coverage of contemporary psychological issues and new directions in education. With its focus on the non-deficit nature of human behaviours and positive psychology, the book emphasises the importance of appropriate pedagogical practices for effective learning. Comprehensive and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Children, Adolescents, Cognitive Development
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Burdick-Shepherd, Stephanie – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
This chapter looks at John Dewey's consideration of childhood as a platform which to view the significance of childhood in moral life. It argues that the concept of childhood is integral to our thinking in the teaching and learning relationship. When we consider childhood from Dewey's platform, we see that childhood is relevant to…
Descriptors: Children, Moral Values, Moral Development, Child Development
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Krettenauer, Tobias – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
This article addresses the question of why the emotions children and adolescents anticipate in the context of hypothetical scenarios have been repeatedly found to predict actual (im)moral behavior. It argues that a common motivational account of this relationship is insufficient. Instead, three links are proposed that connect cognitive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Moral Development, Ethical Instruction
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