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Morality in Children's Worlds – Rationality of Thought or Values Emanating from Relations?

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The topic of this article is morality among pre-school children.Two different theories of morality, morality as lived and morality asrationality of thought, are analyzed with a special view to exploringtheir respective consequences for doing research on small children'smorality. Children's lived morality is then interpreted and discussed interms of rights.

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Johansson, E. Morality in Children's Worlds – Rationality of Thought or Values Emanating from Relations?. Studies in Philosophy and Education 20, 345–358 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011803327963

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