Children's reasoning about peer and school segregation in a diverse society

Tenenbaum, Harriet, Leman, P and Aznar, A (2017) Children's reasoning about peer and school segregation in a diverse society Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology: Growing Up with Diversity: A Social Psychological Perspective, 27 (5). pp. 358-365.

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Abstract

This study examined children's reasoning about single‐gender and single‐faith schools and play contexts. Young people (twenty‐three 8‐ to 10‐year‐olds and fifty‐three 12‐ to 14‐year‐olds) were asked to judge and reason about the acceptability of exclusion based on gender and religion by children and school principals. Participants rated exclusion based on gender as more acceptable than based on religion. Exclusion from school contexts was rated as more acceptable than exclusion from play contexts. Participants tended to invoke moral reasons to condemn exclusion when reasoning about religion, whereas they tended to invoke social conventional reasons when reasoning about gender. Young people's greater support for religiously inclusive schooling compared to gender inclusive schooling suggests that societal and governmental acceptance of religious diversity has support from future generations.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions :	Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences > School of Psychology
Authors :	Name Email ORCID Tenenbaum, Harriet h.tenenbaum@surrey.ac.uk Leman, P Aznar, A
Date :	16 May 2017
DOI :	10.1002/casp.2311
Copyright Disclaimer :	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Tenenbaum HR, Leman P, Aznar A. Children's reasoning about peer and school segregation in a diverse society. J Community Appl Soc Psychol. 2017;1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2311, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casp.2311/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Depositing User :	Melanie Hughes
Date Deposited :	23 Jun 2017 13:36
Last Modified :	16 Jan 2019 18:53
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/841484

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