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Moral Change is not a Birthday Journey: The Stop-and-Change Model of Moral Education

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Kohlberg Revisited

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The most educationally surprising and heavily discussed concept by Lawrence Kohlberg was “development as the aim of education” (Kohlberg & Mayer, 1972, 1981).

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Oser, F. (2015). Moral Change is not a Birthday Journey: The Stop-and-Change Model of Moral Education. In: Zizek, B., Garz, D., Nowak, E. (eds) Kohlberg Revisited. Moral Development and Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-079-6_10

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