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Lawrence Kohlberg

Lawrence Kohlberg. Stages of Moral Development How do children learn right from wrong?. Moral Development.

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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  1. Lawrence Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development How do children learn right from wrong?

  2. Moral Development • Defined by Miller as, “the process by which human beings learn to monitor their own actions and to decide whether a behavior is a “good” or “bad” thing to do and then inhibit inappropriate impulses.”

  3. Inspired by Jean Piaget and John Dewey

  4. Kohlberg holds to the theory that people progress through a series of stages as they develop morally.

  5. Each of the three levels and six stages is dependent on what is learned in previous stages.

  6. Level One • Pre-Conventional Level

  7. Stage One • Obedience and Punishment

  8. Stage Two • Individualism, Instrumentalism, and Exchange

  9. Level Two • Conventional Level

  10. Stage Three • Good Boy, Good Girl

  11. Stage Four • Law and Order

  12. Level Three • Post-Conventional Level

  13. Stage Five • Social Contract

  14. Stage Six • Principled Conscience

  15. Web Sites • www.nd.edu/~rbarger/kohlberg.html • www.muw.edu/nursing/tupelo/359g&d.html • www.xenodochy.org/ex/lists/moraldev.html

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