Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study
The Philosophical Ethics in Early Childhood (PEECh) project aims to advance knowledge of preschool children’s (ages 3-5) ethical understanding and explores the effectiveness of philosophical discussion of children’s literature and extension activities for fostering ethical development in early child...
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| description | The Philosophical Ethics in Early Childhood (PEECh) project aims to advance knowledge of preschool children’s (ages 3-5) ethical understanding and explores the effectiveness of philosophical discussion of children’s literature and extension activities for fostering ethical development in early childhood. In this article we discuss results of our ethics education study with preschool children, including pre-post measurement of experimental and control groups and a 12-week educational intervention focusing on the themes of fairness, empathy (perspective-taking), personal welfare and inclusion versus exclusion of peers. As compared to our control group, study results demonstrated significant developments in our experimental group’s ability to respond to ethical questions, increased use of emotion markers, and increased use of justification terms in support of responses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bb655e3c4b945be918ff199fa99f6252022-12-21T19:05:08ZengUniversity of Birmingham Library ServicesJournal of Philosophy in Schools2204-24822017-05-01417410110.21913/jps.v4i1.142068Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot studyMichael D Burroughs0Tugce B Arda Tuncdemir1Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State UniversityRock Ethics Institute, Penn State UniversityThe Philosophical Ethics in Early Childhood (PEECh) project aims to advance knowledge of preschool children’s (ages 3-5) ethical understanding and explores the effectiveness of philosophical discussion of children’s literature and extension activities for fostering ethical development in early childhood. In this article we discuss results of our ethics education study with preschool children, including pre-post measurement of experimental and control groups and a 12-week educational intervention focusing on the themes of fairness, empathy (perspective-taking), personal welfare and inclusion versus exclusion of peers. As compared to our control group, study results demonstrated significant developments in our experimental group’s ability to respond to ethical questions, increased use of emotion markers, and increased use of justification terms in support of responses.https://jps.bham.ac.uk/articles/68early childhoodethics educationmoral developmentphilosophy for children |
| spellingShingle | Michael D Burroughs Tugce B Arda Tuncdemir Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study Journal of Philosophy in Schools early childhood ethics education moral development philosophy for children |
| title | Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study |
| title_full | Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study |
| title_fullStr | Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study |
| title_short | Philosophical ethics in early childhood: A pilot study |
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| topic | early childhood ethics education moral development philosophy for children |
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