“The Sources of Normativity: Young Children’S Awareness” |

ABSTRACT:

This paper presents that young children understand someacts performed by adults as normatively governed, that is, as capable of beingperformed either rightly or wrongly. Human social life is prearranged byeducational practices and institutions with conservative and normativestructures. The conservative dimension of educational activities specifies whatone characteristically does in this context, whereas the normative dimensionspecifies more vehemently what one have to to do.