scholarly journals Conceptualizations of Knowledge in Structuring Approaches to Moral Development: A Process-Relational Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale ◽  
Vicki L. Parnell ◽  
Beau Wallbridge
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Mechanistic Worldview ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relational Paradigm

Like other aspects of child development, views of the nature and development of morality depend on philosophical assumptions or worldviews presupposed by researchers. We analyze assumptions regarding knowledge linked to two contrasting worldviews: Cartesian-split-mechanistic and process-relational. We examine the implications of these worldviews for approaches to moral development, including relations between morality and social outcomes, and the concepts of information, meaning, interaction and computation. It is crucial to understand how researchers view these interrelated concepts in order to understand approaches to moral development. Within the Cartesian-split-mechanistic worldview, knowledge is viewed as representation and meaning is mechanistic and fixed. Both nativism and empiricism are based in this worldview, differing in whether the source of representations is assumed to be primarily internal or external. Morality is assumed to pre-exist, either in the genome or the culture. We discuss problems with these conceptions and endorse the process-relational paradigm, according to which knowledge is constructed through interaction, and morality begins in activity as a process of coordinating perspectives, rather than the application of fixed rules. The contrast is between beginning with the mind or beginning with social activity in explaining the mind.

scholarly journals Demons of the mind: The ‘psy’ sciences and film in the long 1960s

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512110285
Author(s):  
Tim Snelson ◽  
William R. Macauley
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Mind

This introduction provides context for a collection of articles that came out of a research symposium held at the Science Museum's Dana Research Centre in 2018 for the ‘ Demons of Mind: the Interactions of the ‘Psy’ Sciences and Cinema in the Sixties' project. Across a range of events and research outputs, Demons of the Mind sought to map the multifarious interventions and influences of the ‘psy’ sciences (psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis) on film culture in the long 1960s. The articles that follow discuss, in order: critical engagement with theories of child development in 1960s British science fiction; the ‘horrors’ of contemporary psychiatry and neuroscience portrayed in the Hollywood blockbuster The Exorcist (1973); British social realist filmmakers' alliances with proponents of ‘anti-psychiatry’; experimental filmmaker Jane Arden's coalescence of radical psychiatry and radical feminist techniques in her ‘psychodrama’ The Other Side of the Underneath (1973); and the deployment of film technologies by ‘psy’ professionals during the post-war period to capture and interpret mother-infant interaction.

The Missing Link's Missing Link

1997 ◽  
Vol 179 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Mind

If educational reform is to succeed, the twin goals of intellectual and moral development must be championed in every classroom in America. This paper calls not only for the restoration of character education in the public schools but also for the preparation of character educators—teachers ready to forge enduring habits of the heart and of the mind. It details the attributes of successful character educators and offers suggestions about ways in which teacher education programs can prepare teachers for their work as character educators.

Xunzi in the Light of the Guodian Manuscripts

Early China ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 113-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rakita Goldin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Proper Values ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the several previously unknown Confucian texts discovered in 1993 in a Warring States tomb at Guodian, near Jingmen, Hubei Province. I believe that these works should be understood as doctrinal material deriving from a single tradition of Confucianism and datable to around 300 B.C. Of the surviving literature from the same period, they are closer to the Xunzi than to any other text, and anticipate several characteristic themes in Xunzi's philosophy. These are: the notion of human nature (xing 性),and the controversy over whether the source of morality is internar or “external”; the role of learning (xue 學)and habitual practice (xi 習) in moral development; the content and origin of ritual (li 禮), by which human beings accord with the Way; the conception of the ruler as the mind (xin 心) of the state; and the psychological utility of music (yue 樂) in inculcating proper values.It is especially important for scholars to take note of these connections with Xunzi, in view of the emerging trend to associate the Guodian manuscripts with Zisi, the famous grandson of Confucius, whom Xunzi bitterly criticized.

Legal management models

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Осинцев ◽  
Dmitriy Osintsev
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Management Procedure ◽  
Legal Thinking ◽  
The Law ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Mind

In this book there is not a single definition, as is typical for publications on traditional jurisprudence, here legal thinking is presented in its development, based not on abstract philosophizing and attempts to connect the legal life of society with the rigid framework of scientific laws. The preceding line of legal thinking is a ceaseless discussion of how to approach the understanding of law, otherwise the collision of methodologies, but not philosophizing, but discipline of the mind aimed at ensuring law and order is needed, therefore the way of working in the legal sphere is always dogmatic - exact and unquestioning execution of regulations supported by various security, guarantee, jurisdictional, deterrent and other means, while even changing the prescription itself is definitely subject to from dogma enshrined in procedural procedural rules. Mankind builds the law and official jurisprudence in order not to be distracted each time to clarify the content and meaning of these phenomena. The right acts as a guideline of life positions of interested parties to the relationship. The law does not change the state of affairs that naturally took shape, does not create new laws of nature, economics, social life, etc., but can give them an official style, and nothing more. The norms of law do not coexist along with other social norms, but give them socially significant official status, replace them, and also create innovations in the regulation of social activity. The right is a sign form of government invested with legal constructions, and the form is transformed. The right is accepted by society methods of invasion of the established socio-cultural situation and giving it a kind of conservative tradition after changing the natural course of affairs and replacing it with the normative management procedure.

scholarly journals Objectives in modern preschool programmes (curricula) in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia with the purpose of moral development of preschool children

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (30)) ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Ivana Apostolović
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Analysis Procedure ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
The Republic ◽  
General Goals ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Detailed Presentation

In this paper, we analyze and compare the content of current preschool programmes (curricula) in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia through a detailed presentation of the goals of moral development and upbringing of preschool children in them. The research was performed using a descriptive method, and the content analysis procedure was applied in the paper. The results of the research, presented textually and tabulary, indicate that in the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia in all three preschool programmes (curricula), there are goals related to moral development and upbringing of the child, but there are no specific goals of moral development, yet we recognize them within areas/aspects of child development, common educational goals, general goals, child welfare support goals or individual goals.

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