Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change

Killen, Melanie; Dahl, Audun

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“…To discuss policy recommendations, this review from developmental psychology will focus on children's group identity and adherence to group norms, which provide a window into children's motivations and intentions regarding social exclusion and bias (McGuire et al, 2015). The full scope of children's social cognitive abilities includes not only perceptions about group identity but also judgments about the fair and equal treatment of others, reflected by their developing moral cognition (Elenbaas, 2019; Killen & Dahl, 2021; Rutland et al, 2010).…”

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Promoting Fair and Just School Environments: Developing Inclusive Youth

Killen

Rutland

2022

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Incidents of prejudice and discrimination in K–12 schools have increased over the past decade around the world, including the United States. In 2018, more than two-thirds of the 2,776 U.S. educators surveyed reported witnessing a hate or bias incident in their school. Children and adolescents who experience prejudice, social exclusion, and discrimination are subject to compromised well-being and low academic achievement. Few educators feel prepared to incorporate this topic into the education curriculum. Given the long-term harm related to experiencing social exclusion and discrimination, school districts need to create positive school environments and directly address prejudice and bias. Several factors are currently undermining progress in this area. First, national debates in the United States and other countries have politicized the topic of creating fair and just school environments. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted children's and adolescents’ education by halting academic progress which has particularly negatively affected students from marginalized and ethnic/racial minority backgrounds. Third, teachers have experienced significant stress during COVID-19 with an increase in anxiety around virtual instruction and communication with parents. Three strategies recommended to address these converging problems include creating inclusive and nondiscriminatory policies for schools, promoting opportunities for intergroup contact and mutual respect, and implementing evidence-based, developmentally appropriate education programs. It is anticipated that these strategies will help to reduce prejudice, increase ethnic and racial identity (ERI), and promote equity, fairness, and justice in school environments.

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Promoting Fair and Just School Environments: Developing Inclusive Youth

Killen

Rutland

2022

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“…While moral reasoning is a key factor for societal change (Killen and Dahl, 2021), the process of individual positioning is often shaped by empathy (Mathews and Collin-Vezina, 2016;Worthington et al, 2016). Thus, it is worthwhile to examine the role of empathy in the abolition of slavery and in the campaigns against animal production.…”

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Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Mann

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe market for slaves is one of the few cases where trade is banned for moral reasons in every country. While animal activists often link animal production to slavery, they fail to answer the question about why animal production persists in every country, while slavery is banned everywhere.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose of this paper is to show both parallels and differences between slavery and animal production, both from a historic and systematic perspective.FindingsIt can be shown that the claim about the many philosophical parallels between slavery and animal production is justified, but that the political economy between the cases differs strongly, particularly regarding the distribution of benefits.Practical implicationsThe paper argues that the food industry will play a decisive role in the future of animal production.Social implicationsThe loss of jobs would certainly be an issue if animal production was banned, whereas the labor market effects of abolition were more complex.Originality/valueWhile the comparison is not new, this is the first holistic evaluation of it.

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“…Early research in this tradition (Candee & Kohlberg, 1987) demonstrated that this could lead to rule breaking motivated by concerns about justice. In an era of social change, it is important to recognize that higher levels of moral reasoning can lead people not only toward personal development, but also toward support for social change to better achieve justice (Killen & Dahl, 2021).…”

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Legal socialization: Back to the future

Tyler

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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The articles in this volume highlight resurgence of interest in the topic of legal socialization. Legal and moral socialization was central to the writing of classic social theorists around the beginning of the 20th century, and was an important research topic in the 1970s. It has been less widely studied in recent decades. Renewed attention to legal socialization today is a result of both developments in psychology and of emerging societal issues. In particular, a renewed societal focus on how to create a viable and sustainable social order has again drawn attention to legal socialization. In response, as this volume illustrates, psychologists have increased and broadened their efforts to understand legal socialization. They have addressed the issue using new theoretical models, have considered a broader set of sources of socialization, and have paid heightened attention to the experience of traditionally marginalized members of society.In their introduction to this special issue Trinkner and Reisig (2021) note the seminal work of pioneers like Tapp (1971) and Tapp and Levine (1974). That work inspired the tremendous surge in legal/political socialization research that occurred during the 1960-70s. Their efforts arose in tandem with an outpouring of research on the general political socialization process, including classic research by Easton and Dennis (1969), Greenstein (1965), Hess and Torney (1967) and Hyman (1959.This work on legal socialization in the 1960-80s was followed by a striking hiatus in the study of legal socialization toward the end of the 20th century. However, according to a Google Ngram search, the field of legal socialization has rapidly grown since 2001 and today, as is reflected in this special issue, is represented by impressive research efforts involving a variety of aspects of the field. Interestingly, this rise is not accompanied by a similar increase in political socialization

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Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change

Cited by 52 publications

References 131 publications

Promoting Fair and Just School Environments: Developing Inclusive Youth

Promoting Fair and Just School Environments: Developing Inclusive Youth

Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

Legal socialization: Back to the future

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