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"In Moral Education for Social Justice, the authors move students beyond the adoption of the values of the dominant culture (what the authors refer to as becoming "nice" people), toward a position of personal and societal moral critique. The authors argue that the development of social and moral cognition does not occur in isolation. The authors take the relational development systems framework approach that views each component of human development as interacting with each other as well as with the surrounding environment"--
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Larry Nucci is an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley and professor emeritus of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Robyn Ilten-Gee is an assistant professor in Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Riassunto
Addresses issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students' development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to address societal conventions, norms, and institutions.
