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- Title
What Should We Teach Children About Forgiveness?
- Authors
White, Patricia
- Abstract
The Primary and Secondary Handbooks on the National Curriculum for England state that children ‘should learn how to forgive themselves and others’. But what is involved in forgiveness? It is suggested that there is a strict view, which is shown to involve some ethically questionable attitudes, and a more relaxed view. Schools, it is suggested, need to introduce their students to an understanding of the complexities of these notions of forgiveness and other possible attitudes to wrongdoers. In the life and organisation of the school, however, it is argued that the more generous-spirited attitude should prevail.
- Subjects
FORGIVENESS; CHILDREN; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2002, Vol 36, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0309-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9752.00259