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Teaching, Learning and Psychology
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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
Executive Function and Temperamental Fear Concurrently Predict Deception in School-Aged Children
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Babkirk, Sarah; Saunders, Lauren V.; Solomon, Beylul; Kessel, Ellen M.; Crossman, Angela; Gokhan, Nurper; Dennis, Tracy A. – Journal of Moral Education, 2015
The decision to intentionally withhold truthful information, or deception, is a key component of moral development and may be a precursor to more serious anti-social tendencies. Two factors, executive function (EF) and temperamental fear are each thought to influence childhood deception. Few studies, however, have explored deception in relation to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Moral Development, Short Term Memory, Fear
The Assignment of Moral Status: Age-Related Differences in the Use of Three Mental Capacity Criteria
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Olthof, Tjeert; Rieffe, Carolien; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Lalay-Cederburg, Cindy; Reijntjes, Albert; Hagenaar, Janneke – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study examined children's and young adults' use of three mental capacity criteria for treating an entity as one to which moral subjects have moral obligations, that is, as having moral status. In line with philosophical theorizing, these criteria were the capacity to (1) perceive; (2) suffer; and (3) think. In this study, 116 respondents aged…
Descriptors: Criteria, Young Adults, Moral Development, Anxiety
Language, Culture, and Moral Development: A Vygotskian Perspective.
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Tappan, Mark B. – Developmental Review, 1997
Outlines a sociocultural perspective on the study of moral development grounded in Vygotskian theory, highlighting semiotic mediation of moral functioning via inner speech as inner moral dialog, the social origins of moral functioning, and sociocultural "situatedness" of moral development. Suggests that this perspective addresses…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Influences, Individual Differences, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
Origins, Differences, and the Origins of Differences in Moral Development: Parent-Child Discourse as Moral Activity.
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Buzzelli, Cary A. – Developmental Review, 1997
A framework is presented for analyzing discourse during parent-child interaction about moral matters, using speech genres and registers. This analysis considers social, cultural, and historical influences on moral development and locates the origins of moral sensibilities and differences in moral functioning in the discourse parents and children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
Varieties of Childhood Bullying: Values, Emotion Processes and Social Competence.
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Arsenio, William F.; Lemerise, Elizabeth A. – Social Development, 2001
Summarizes the main debate points on the issue and nature of bullies and bullying, and clarifies unresolved issues concerning the nature and limits of social competence values. Argues that variations in children's emotion processes may underlie some individual differences that have been found in empathy, social information processing, and reactive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior, Children