Kohlberg started his research on moral development in the mid-1950s when he began to prepare his doctoral thesis. The thesis was presented in 1958 under the title The Development of Modes of Moral Thinking and Choice in the years 10–16 (Kohlberg 1988). Kohlberg takes as a starting point Jean Piaget’s four-staged model of the application of rules and the two types of morality. In his book The Moral Judgement of the Child, Piaget (1983) uses a game of marbles as an example of an extremely complex system of rules, “a kind of jurisprudence of its own.” When adopting the rules, a child goes through four successive stages. The first stage concerns just a purely motor and individual character and thus does not any have significance for Kohlberg, but rest three stages form the foundation of Kohlberg’s theory. Those three Piaget’s stages are the stage of egocentrism (II), the stage of cooperations (III), and the stage of codification of rules (IV). From this study of rules of a game, Piaget...
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Kakkori, L., Huttunen, R. (2016). Gilligan-Kohlberg Controversy. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_417-1
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