What’s Wrong with Socialisation? Lessons from Joint Reminiscing in the Early Years.       

Over a number of papers, Audun Dahl has criticised the socialisation view of moral development. According to the socialisation view, children’s moral learning emerges from social interactions with their parents. Dahl argues that the socialisation view misses the constructivist aspect of children’s moral learning. In this talk, I appeal to work on joint reminiscing in the early years to defend the socialisation view against Dahl’s criticism. I begin by distinguishing Dahl’s view from the socialisation view by articulating his appeal to constructivism in early childhood moral learning. I then appeal to work on joint reminiscing in the early years to argue that socialisation can involve the kind of constructivism that Dahl is after.

Daniel Vanello is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Before that, he was Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick (2020-2023), Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin (2018-2020), and Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Fribourg and the Affective Sciences research Centre at the University of Geneva (2017-2018). He was awarded his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. 

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