Morality

• In this chapter we explore the moral interactional work that preschool teachers and children accomplish in everyday preschool practices. We explore how teachers solicit accounts in assisting the children to remedy a problematic conduct of excluding a child from play. It will be shown how the children justify their actions to avoid being blamed for faulty conduct. In their response the preschool teachers use hypothetical scenarios to avoid blaming and instead modeling the children’s actions and feelings to experience the hurt feeling by a peer. The study shows how an EMCA approach can provide insights into how childhood educators socialize children into accountability and compassion while maintaining a democratic ethos. 

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Adult-child interaction

Accountability

Moral order

Ethnomethodology

Video-ethnoghraphy

Pedagogik

Education

Linguistics

Lingvistik

Sociologi

Sociology

Psychology

Psykologi

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