North American Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that the moral growth of human beings has six stages, but nowadays only a small percentage of people achieve the highest stage. Taking Jean Piaget’s ...

I wanted to start by saying that I hope everyone you know in the Boston community through your extensive work there is safe and has been able to weather what must have been an emotional storm over the ...

Peabody Journal of Education (PJE) publishes quarterly symposia in the broad area of education. This includes topics related to formal institutions catering to students in early childhood, pre-school, ...

The development of moral reasoning is not based on what age or grade a child is in. It is a representation of how they see the world and get their needs met. As parents, we all look for that point ...

There’s a famous moral thought experiment, the Heinz Dilemma, that is supposed to tell us about a person’s moral development. What it might actually tell us is that moral development doesn’t matter.

Ever since G. Stanley Hall’s 1892 description of infants learning to love because of the mother’s embrace, the field of moral development has been searching for the answer to one of humanity’s most ...

Carol Gilligan is an internationally acclaimed psychologist and prolific writer. She graduated summa cum laude from Swarthmore College in 1958 with a major in literature. She went on to do advanced ...

Kohlberg's stages of moral development were conceived by Lawrence Kohlberg to explain the development of moral reasoning. This theory holds that moral reasoning, which is the basis for ethical ...