Qualitative study explores moral development in township youth compared to middle-class youth, highlighting significant differences.
How does growing up in a township affect your moral formation? Does it impact negatively or positively? Are township youth more or less moral than their middle-class counterparts? These were the key questions that led Sharlene Swartz to conduct her doctoral research on the moral lives of South Africa's township youth.
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