Many times, parents and teachers try to reason with young children why they have not given a pencil to a teammate or why they have assaulted another, assuming that the child understand them exactly, but it is this so? Based on the theories and the research of the Piaget, Kohlberg studied moral reasoning development, presenting to children, adolescents and adults with series of hypothetical stories posed ethical dilemmas. To examine the responses that people gave to these dilemmas, Kohlberg found three levels of moral reasoning: the preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional, with 2 pairs at each level. The pre-convencional level in the preconventional level the subject puts the emphasis in obtaining rewards and avoid punishments. In the first phase of this level the most important value is the obedience to authority to avoid punishment for own interests but in the second phase there is a second motivation, conviction of being good with others makes others they are good with me, is more a Jack give-and-take that the first part. Hear other arguments on the topic with Alan Carr. Children of the […]