In the latest issue of 2012 (35/3) the Prospectives section, launched in the second issue of the present year and continued in the third issue, continues its development, featuring Philippe Rochat's  Self-consciousness and “conscientiousness“ in development.

As announced in the Editorial introduction of Infancia y Aprendizaje's new stage, all articles published in the Prospectives section will be freely accessible in the journal's electronic edition. We thus invite all our readers to view and spread the articles published in this section if they cater to their interest.

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Self-consciousness is discussed here as a unique feature of our species. As a student of early childhood, my goal is to provide some developmental light on the origins and consequences of such feature that arguably shapes human experience. At the core of my argument, there is the idea that self-consciousness is inseparable from the human propensity to take an ethical stance toward others, but also toward the self in terms of reputation and the construction of a moral identity. I therefore consider the ontogenetic emergence of self-consciousness and its relation to the emergence of an ethical stance in children.