In the latest edition of The Hedgehog Review, Wilfred McClay has an excellent article examining the importance of teaching
children moral frameworks, even if they eventually choose to reject them.
Not exact matches
«Given the existing regulatory
framework that provides for proper informed consent procedures where
children are concerned, there is an overwhelming
moral argument for the bill to be amended so that consent is brought into line with other health and research activities.»
The problem, according to Hunter, a professor of sociology and religion at the University of Virginia, lies in the psychologically oriented pedagogy that character educators turn to in teaching values to
children: «Dominated as it is by perspectives diffused and diluted from professional psychology, this regime is overwhelmingly therapeutic and self - referencing; in character, its defining feature is a
moral framework whose center point is the autonomous self.»
Her thirty - year career has been devoted to developing a
framework to strengthen
children's character and build
moral school climates.
We aim for a system change in education by bringing a new subject into schools, from the Early Years, when the
child's personality and
moral framework is still developing.