Moral development

Teaching ethics should be part of the job of all faculty members in all disciplines, writes C.K. Gunsalus.

The conscience works by telling us how to discriminate between right and wrong. The conscience is said to develop around the age of 3 years.

Sometimes I catch myself saying stuff that shocks me. I hear words come out of my mouth and think “That was awful. Who are you? Where did that come from?” ‘What’s down in the well comes up...

Jean Piaget introduced the idea of how moral development occurs in stages, each level built on life experiences and active reasoning. Lawrence Kohlberg

Kohlberg's theory of moral development seeks to explain how children form moral reasoning. According to Kohlberg's theory, moral development occurs in six stages.

Lawrence Kohlberg formulated a theory asserting that individuals progress through six distinct stages of moral reasoning from infancy to adulthood. According to Kohlberg, these stages are grouped into three separate levels known as preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality.

Kohlberg's Stage Theory of Moral Development.

This article explores three theories of moral development in children: the piagetian, biological and psychodynamic models. Each theory is discussed, and examples are given.