Armoured with morality: Parental perspectives on moral education in the violent context of Brazilian slums

This article describes the goals, practices and underlying values of parents raising children in the violent context of Brazilian slums. The results show that mothers act within a multivocal moral framework, combining 'street cultural logic' with 'middle-class' perspectives. Surv...

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Published in:Journal of moral education 2020-10, Vol.49 (4), p.436-453
Main Authors: van Dijk, Annelieke, de Haan, Mariëtte, de Winter, Micha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child Rearing
Community Characteristics
Disadvantaged communities
Dissociation
Foreign Countries
Middle Class
Moral Development
Moral education
Moral Values
Morality
Mother Attitudes
Mothers
Neighborhoods
Parent Child Relationship
parenting values
Parents & parenting
Preschool Children
Slums
Social Change
street culture
Violence
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Summary:This article describes the goals, practices and underlying values of parents raising children in the violent context of Brazilian slums. The results show that mothers act within a multivocal moral framework, combining 'street cultural logic' with 'middle-class' perspectives. Survival and a strong sense of morality are taught through both adaptation to and dissociation from the neighbourhood context. The analyses challenge the idea of a homogeneous 'street' culture in these communities and show that various cultural repertoires and multiple interconnected perspectives on morality are cultivated in response to violence. The study provides ways to interpret parental strategies to organise a moral counteroffensive as a lever for change.
ISSN:0305-7240
1465-3877
DOI:10.1080/03057240.2019.1646635