Membership and moral formation : shame as an educational and social emotion

• Main Author: Covaleskie, John F. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2013]
• Subjects: Moral education.; Moral development.; Shame > Social aspects.; Education > Aims & Objectives.; Moral and social purpose of education.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613441
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-194-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 148 pages)

This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief, I argue that shame is neither imposed on us b...