PSYCHOLOGY – “Don’t hurt your sister”, “don’t say rude things”, “listen to your teachers”… The education of a child is strewn with principles and other injunctions to “behave well”. But does that really make someone good?
What could be more natural than to lecture your child when he has done something stupid? This is what is at stake in all moral education:We don’t just want children to behave as we want them to, but to want them to behave themselves. In other words, we want them to internalize the principles that we teach them.», says Sophie Richardot, doctor in social psychology and lecturer in education sciences at the University of Picardy, specialist in questions relating to moral development. But is it effective in making him a “good” person? How can we promote his moral development and transmit our values to him? And is it our fault if he behaves in an “immoral” way?
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According to some theorists, morality is not one but “made up of three domains: the moral domain (doing no harm to others), conventional (respecting the social norms in force) and personal (the personal choices of individuals on…
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