Preschool girls as rule breakers : Negotiating moral orders of justice and fairness

• This study examines how preschool-girls organize situated board games. Examining video data, using an ethnomethodological approach, the study focuses moral work-in-interaction in instances where the girls negotiate rule violations.  It was found that the girls oriented to diverse forms of moral orders, shifting between a competitive/justice-based order and a socio-moral order of reciprocal relations. Argumentative moves of cheating were used as communicative resources both to control moral transgressions and to gain personal advantages. Overall, the analysis shows that preschool girls are active moral agents in making and breaking rules and in negotiating complex moral orders. 

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogiskt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogical Work (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Preschool girls

board games

moral work-in-interaction

rule violations

moral orders

children´s peer relations

legal debates

ethnomethodology

Pedagogik

Education

Board games

children’s peer relations

ethnomethodology

moral orders

moral work-ininteraction

preschool girls

rule violations

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)