- Lecture: Getting to the Heart of It: Children’s Conversations
about Moral Matters - Date: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1998
- Time: 7 p.m.
- Place: Italian Cultural Centre activity room, 3075 Slocan
Street, Vancouver
Have we lost the ability to talk about questions of meaning, value
and belief?
Not if we look to our children. That’s the focus of a talk by UBC
Education Asst. Prof. Linda Darling entitled “Getting to the Heart
of It: Children’s Conversations about Moral Matters.”
Darling says by the time they enter school, children speak a language
that is already rich with concepts such as courage, kindness, cruelty,
fairness, selfishness, and pride. Lively conversation can be found
where children have the opportunity, resources and support to talk
about moral understandings and practices.
The free public lecture takes place Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Italian
Cultural Centre.
Darling, who taught Grade 1 for 11 years, will draw upon real classroom
conversations and her own research to focus on different aspects
of children’s moral lives.
Respondents will be children’s author Kit Pearson, winner of the
1997 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for Awake
and Dreaming, and Gillian Sutherland, principal of Sea Island
Elementary School in Richmond.
The talk is the second in a three-part series on important educational
issues in British Columbia sponsored by the Faculty of Education
at UBC.
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