Imagining with Purpose in Childhood
Children as Emerging Agents Envisioning Lives Worth Valuing
Series: Philosophy of Childhood;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 6 August 2026
- ISBN 9781666918823
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Imagining with Purpose in Childhood explores the question: How might moral imagining be conceived to support the cultivation of responsible autonomy in childhood?
MoreLong description:
"Imagining with Purpose in Childhood explores the question: How might moral imagining be conceived to support the cultivation of responsible autonomy in childhood? It argues that when conceived as a conscious, flexible process, moral imagining may contribute to children's emerging agency by expanding and enriching their envisioned options for what they believe is worth valuing within their current and future circumstances, thereby helping to make their autonomy more responsible. Natalie M. Fletcher proposes the conception of deliberate moral imagining, understood as the purposeful envisioning of a given context from multiple frames of reference in response to a real-world encounter, with the goal of bringing to light possibilities for what seems reasonable to value in order to broaden the moral lens through which lived experiences are approached and assessed. This book explores how deliberate moral imagining may assist children in confronting some important challenges to responsible autonomy that risk constricting their envisioning of the overarching contexts most influential in childhood: their relation to others (how they view and treat them), their relation to self (how they perceive and value themselves) and their relation to knowledge (how they learn and what they claim to know about the world). In response to the respective challenges of narrow empathetic scope, conversion inhibition and inaccurate pseudoenvironments, deliberate moral imagining may help enrich children's ""mental landscape"" by cultivating relational openness through three crucial autonomy supports: empathic engagement, self-efficacy and reasonableness. The book draws on three theoretical frameworks-neo-Aristotelian virtue theory, the Capabilities Approach and classical pragmatism-and includes a case study of the Philosophy for Children program as an illustrative example of deliberate moral imagining in action."
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Conceptualising Moral Imagining
Chapter 2: Moral Imagining Within Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Theory
Chapter 3: Moral Imagining Within the Capabilities Approach
Chapter 4: Moral Imagining Within Classical Pragmatism
Chapter 5: Morally Imaginative Practices in Childhood
Conclusion
References
Index
