How Children Become Moral Selves

How Children Become Moral Selves: Building Character and Promoting Citizenship in Education, by Dr Josephine Russell, was launched at St Patrick’s College on Tuesday 9th October.  This book examines moral responsiveness and thinking in a mixed gender class of primary school children, and offers a theoretical perspective on children’s ability to think together about morality in a community of enquiry and on related issues of pedagogy.  It tracks development in children’s moral awareness, looking at gains and losses from middle to late childhood.  

Dr Russell is a teacher with experience of both primary and post-primary education.   She received her PhD from St Patrick’s College.  Launching the book, Seán Haughey TD, Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, congratulated the author on her achievement and described the book as a timely and important contribution at a critical moment in the development of Irish society. 

 

 

 

 

Dr Pauric Travers, Dr Josephine Russell, Mr Seán Haughey, TD

Sussex Academic Press – ISBN 978-1-84519-175-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Friday October 12 2007