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Life in an Unjust Community: A Hollywood View of High School Moral Life.
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The Mean Girls (2004) movie as mentioned in this paper is a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3, and presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty.Abstract:
This article analyses the film Mean girls (2004) as a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3. The film presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty. Gossip is the main transgression in this tale of mundane moral life, and the school's failure to create a sense of community allows violence to erupt among the eleventh grade girls when the gossip gets out of hand. The sex education classes are a biting critique of ‘values education’ as adult hypocrisy and indoctrination. Gender‐related issues of caring (beginning with the film's title) are discussed, as is the anomalous portrayal of immanent justice. Strategies for improving the moral climate of this fictional school are discussed from both liberal and communitarian points of view.read more
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The story of kiasu : expressions of identity and status via conspicuous consumption : an ethnographic study of Singaporean young women in a newly adopted culture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a novel approach to solve the problem of homonymity in homonymization, i.e., homonymonymity-of-homonymity.
The Culture of Mean: Gender, Race, and Class in Mediated Images of Girls' Bullying
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the history of Mean Girls and the media through a series of popular culture references, including The Breakfast Club, Heathers, and Mean Girls, and conclude: "The Price of Popularity: Tracing Girlhood Discourses through 24" and "The Ultimate Mean Girls".
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Padrões morais, valores e conceitos empregados por alunos de ensino fundamental em discussões sociocientíficas
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Which values?: Matching Schwartz's ten values constructs with the Nine Values for Australian Schooling
TL;DR: The authors used the Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) as well as thematic analysis to determine which values are represented in the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools by matching Schwartz's ten values constructs to the Nine Values for Australian Schooling and examining the values orientations of contemporary young people.
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The Moral Judgment of the Child
TL;DR: The Moral Judgment of the Child by Jean Piaget as mentioned in this paper chronicles the evolution of children's moral thinking from preschool to adolescence, tracing their concepts of lying, cheating, adult authority, punishment, and responsibility and offering important insights into how they learn -or fail to learn -the difference between right and wrong.
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
TL;DR: Rorty as discussed by the authors argues that it is literature not philosophy that can promote a genuine sense of human solidarity, and argues that a truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project for human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers.
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Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice.
Derald Wing Sue,Christina M. Capodilupo,Gina C. Torino,Jennifer Bucceri,Aisha M. B. Holder,Kevin L. Nadal,Marta Esquilin +6 more
TL;DR: Almost all interracial encounters are prone to microaggressions; this article uses the White counselor--client of color counseling dyad to illustrate how they impair the development of a therapeutic alliance.