The Promotion of Social Awareness (2003) by Robert Selman

When

I read this around the same time as read Selman’s first book.

Why

Like the first book, this book explores the developmental science behind children’s understanding of others from a structural developmental perspective. So at the time, it played an important role in my thinking concerning social and moral development.

How

Although my current grounding in Social Cognitive Domain Theory takes me away from some of Selman’s core assumptions (and those of other structural developmental scholars like Kohlberg), some ideas and aims still inform my approach to the study of moral development and superhero media more broadly.