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The Role of Parents in Moral Development: A social domain analysis
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In this paper, a social domain theory analysis of the role of parents in moral development is provided, where both affective and cognitive components of parents' interactions with their children may facilitate children's moral development.Abstract:
This article provides a social domain theory analysis of the role of parents in moral development. Social knowledge domains, including morality as distinct from other social concepts, are described. Then, it is proposed that, although morality is constructed from reciprocal social interactions, both affective and cognitive components of parents' interactions with their children may facilitate children's moral development. The affective context of the relationship may influence children's motivation to listen to and respond to parents; in addition, affect associated with responses to transgressions can affect children's encoding and remembering of those events. Although moral interactions occur frequently in peer contexts, parents' domain-specific feedback about the nature of children's moral interactions are proposed to provide a cognitive mechanism for facilitating moral development. Parents promote children's moral understanding by providing domain appropriate and developmentally sensitive reasoning and...read more
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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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The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of concepts of social convention and coordination of domains is discussed. But the focus is on social experience and social knowledge, rather than on moral development, as in this paper.
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