Lawrence Kohlberg

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Lawrence Kohlberg

• Stages of Moral Development
• How do children learn right from wrong?

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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.

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Inspired by Jean Piaget and John Dewey
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Kohlberg holds to the theory that people progress
through a series of stages as they develop
morally.
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Each of the three levels and six stages is
dependent on what is learned in previous stages.
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Level One

• Pre-Conventional Level

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Stage One

• Obedience and Punishment

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Stage Two

• Individualism, Instrumentalism, and Exchange

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Level Two

• Conventional Level

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Stage Three

• Good Boy, Good Girl

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Stage Four

• Law and Order

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Level Three

• Post-Conventional Level

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Stage Five

• Social Contract

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Stage Six

• Principled Conscience

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Web Sites

• www.nd.edu/rbarger/kohlberg.html
• www.muw.edu/nursing/tupelo/359gd.html
• www.xenodochy.org/ex/lists/moraldev.html