Lawrence Kohlberg and Moral development

Introduction Lawrence Kholberg spent many years researching how individuals develop their own moral codes. For nearly thirty years he has amplified his Cognitive-Developmental theory of moralisation which has now become prominent in the field of moral development and its application to moral education. Kohlberg proposed that moral difficulties motivated their own development through a fixed sequence of increasingly adaptable kinds of moral reasoning. He conducted most of his work at Harvard University and developed his …

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