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Reason, Matthew – Trentham Books Ltd, 2010
Children's theatre in the UK is thriving. Debates about why children should watch theatre and what educational, emotional and expressive benefits it can provide inform cultural policy on education. Children aged 4-11 are increasingly taken to watch tailored theatre performances, yet there has been virtually no reflective research on what theatre…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Drama
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Nisan, Mordecai – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Nisan responds to Turiel, Nucci, and Smetana's (1988) critique by stating that it merely serves to emphasize the difficulty involved in distinguishing between the moral and the conventional without reference to the cultural meaning of the act. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Moral Development
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Turiel, Elliot; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
This critique of Nisan's (1987) study of morality and convention addresses methodological considerations for cross-cultural research on children's moral and conventional concepts. (PCB)
Descriptors: Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
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Witherell, Carol S.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Journal of Moral Education, 1991
Suggests that attempts to segregate social-conventional reasoning from the moral domain may represent an artificial division ignoring major philosophic and psychological traditions. Discusses the individual, social, and relational dimensions of morality and the cultural context of moral development. Calls for continuing narrative and…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Cultural Influences, Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking
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Mey, Langha de; Schulze, Hans-J. – Journal of Moral Education, 1996
Questions Lawrence Kohlberg's complexity hypothesis that individuals exhibit higher stages of moral judgement in complex socio-political surroundings. Tests the moral judgements of adolescent students from The Netherlands and the former German Democratic Republic. Results of the tests failed to support Kohlberg's hypothesis. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background