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Young children are not normative agents. Because of this, they are not morally responsible for their behaviour. One of the primary aims of educating children is to ensure that they become normative agents who are capable of shouldering moral responsibility for their actions. Transforming a child from being simply a member of the homo sapiens species into a morally responsible, normative agent is one of the most important dimensions of moral education. We all agree, of course, that this important feature has to be taken care of in the philosophy of (moral) education, but there is surprisingly little discussion in the literature of what it exactly involves.
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Cuypers, S.E. (2011). Moral Education,Moral Responsibility,and Deontic Morality. In: Ruyter, D.J.d., Miedema, S. (eds) Moral Education and Development. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_11
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