Between Horror and Boredom: Fairy Tales and Moral Education

Autor/in	Lewin, David
Titel	Between Horror and Boredom: Fairy Tales and Moral Education
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 15 (2020) 2, S.213-231 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lewin, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2020.1731107
Schlagwörter	Moral Values; Fairy Tales; Values Education; Teaching Methods; Interpersonal Relationship; Folk Culture; Moral Development; Child Development; Literary Genres + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Fairy tale; Fairytale; Fairytales; Fairy-tale; Fairy-tales; Märchen; Werterziehung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Moralische Entwicklung; Kindesentwicklung; Literarische Form
Abstract	Where do a child's morals come from? Interactions with other human beings provide arguably the primary contexts for moral development: family, friends, teachers and other people. It is the artistic products of human activity that this essay considers: literature, film, art, music. Specifically, I will consider some philosophical issues concerning the influence of folk and fairy tales on moral development. I will discuss issues of representation and reduction: in particular, how far should stories for children elide the complexities inherent to many folk and fairy tales? Drawing on a distinction between a problematic reductionism and an appropriate pedagogical reduction, I suggest that pedagogical issues of representation require us to think about how to represent complexity in ways that are reductive without being reductionist, that can delight and engage without being horrifying or tedious. While there is a place for horror and for boredom, it is primarily a matter of timing... (As Provided).
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