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  Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kohlberg's stages of moral development were developed by Lawrence Kohlberg to explain the development of moral reasoning.
Kohlberg's theory holds that moral reasoning, which he thought to be the basis for ethical behavior, has developmental stages.
Kohlberg stage 4½ or 4+,which is a transition from stage four to stage five, is the stage where people have become disaffected with the arbitrary nature of law and order reasoning and become moral relativists.
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 Lawrence Kohlberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kohlberg stayed in the University of Chicago for his graduate work, becoming fascinated with children's moral reasoning and the earlier works of Jean Piaget and others.
Kohlberg then taught in 1962 at the University of Chicago in the Committee on Human Development, further extending his time with academia.
During a visit to Israel in 1969, Kohlberg journeyed to a kibbutz and was shocked to discover how much more the youths' moral development had progressed compared to those who were not part of kibbutzim.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg   (515 words)

  
 KOHLBERG'S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kohlberg believed...and was able to demonstrate through studies...that people progressed in their moral reasoning (i.e., in their bases for ethical behavior) through a series of stages.
While Kohlberg always believed in the existence of Stage 6 and had some nominees for it, he could never get enough subjects to define it, much less observe their longitudinal movement to it.
Thus, according to Kohlberg, it was important to present them with moral dilemmas for discussion which would help them to see the reasonableness of a "higher stage" morality and encourage their development in that direction.
www.nd.edu /~rbarger/kohlberg.html   (606 words)

  
 Kohlberg's Moral Stages
Kohlberg, who was born in 1927, grew up in Bronxville, New York, and attended the Andover Academy in Massachusetts, a private high school for bright and usually wealthy students.
Kohlberg is an informal, unassuming man who also is a true scholar; he has thought long and deeply about a wide range of issues in both psychology and philosophy and has done much to help others appreciate the wisdom of many of the "old psychologists," such as Rousseau, John Dewey, and James Mark Baldwin.
Kohlberg's response is that different cultures do teach different beliefs, but that his stages refer not to specific beliefs but to underlying modes of reasoning (Kohlberg and Gilligan, 197 1).
faculty.plts.edu /gpence/html/kohlberg.htm   (8236 words)

  
 Lawrence Kohlberg -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kohlberg's theory of moral development emphasizes that moral reasoning develops in stages.
Her primary contention was that Kohlberg was looking at moral reasoning from a justice perspective, whereas women developed a different perspective, which she called caring.
Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning, which he thought to be the basis for ethical behavior, develops through stages.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lawrence_kohlberg.htm   (386 words)

  
 Olga Kohlberg Pioneered Many Local Organizations
Kohlberg was familiar with the concept of kindergarten, which originated in her native Germany.
Kohlberg recruited her son in-law, Dr. Branch Craige, to be the physician and director of the sanatorium.
Kohlberg participated in the Civic League, an auxiliary of the Woman's Club, which was created to improve the sanitary and aesthetic conditions in the city, particularly in the schools.
www.epcc.edu /ftp/homes/monicaw/borderlands/20_kohlberg_olga.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Writing Your Own Philosophy of Life , Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development - Psychological Self-Help
Kohlberg's conception of moral development is based on thinking and logic, not on feelings for others.
Likewise, Kohlberg believed that morals were based on age and "wisdom," rather than real life experience and empathic identification with others.
Kohlberg's evaluation of moral decisions was based on the quality of the reasoning behind a person's decision, rather than whether or not some specific behavioral decision was made.
mentalhelp.net /psyhelp/chap3/chap3h.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Reasoning
Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning involved six stages through which each person passes in order, without skipping a stage or reversing their order.
Kohlberg's theory initiated an entirely new field of study in Western science that gained momentum in the 1960s and 1970s and continues to inspire new research today.
Kohlberg claimed that his stages of moral development are universal, applying equally to all human beings across cultural divisions.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2602/is_0003/ai_2602000337   (1156 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Kohlberg, Lawrence (1927-1987)
Kohlberg began teaching at the University of Chicago in 1963, where he remained until his 1967 appointment to the faculty of Harvard University, where he has served as professor of education and social psychology.
Kohlberg points out that many people never pass beyond the conventional level, and that the most clearly principled response at Stage 6 was expressed by fewer than 10 percent of adolescents over the age of 16.
Kohlberg's system is closely related to Piaget's theories, both in its emphasis on cognitive development and in its designation of a chronological series of stages, each dependent on the preceding ones.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000195   (848 words)

  
 kohlberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To Kohlberg, moral development and moral behavior are considered to be two different things.
Kohlberg conducted a series of studies in which he presented his subjects with moral dilemmas.
The most famous example of the moral dilemma that Kohlberg presented to his subjects is known as The Heinz Dilemma.
academic.uofs.edu /student/dejesuss2/KOHLBERG.HTML   (661 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KOHLBERG, ERNST
Ernst Kohlberg, El Paso civic leader and founder of the first cigar factory in the Southwest, was born on May 24, 1857, in Beverungen, Westphalia, at that time a province of Prussia.
Kohlberg, who probably emigrated to avoid Germany's mandatory military draft, signed a contract with Schutz by which he agreed to work without salary for six months to a year in order to defray the costs of his passage to Texas.
Kohlberg was also a director of the Terminal Association, established in 1901 to develop the Union Depot Corporation, and of the Rio Grande Valley Bank and Trust Company.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fkohd.html   (669 words)

  
 Kohlberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1973 Kohlberg developed a tropical disease, and while hospitalized in 1987, was reported missing on January 17.
Kohlberg was a psychologist who applied the developmental approach of Jean Piaget, who he studied under, to the analysis of changes in moral reasoning.
Influenced by Piaget's concept of stages, Kohlberg's theory was created based on the idea that stages of moral development build on each other in order of importance and significance to the person.
www.nvgc.vt.edu /alhrd/Theorists/Kohlberg.htm   (253 words)

  
 To understand Nike Corporation
Kohlberg argues that his six stages are hierarchically integrated in that people do not lose the insights gained at earlier stages, they integrate them into successively broader frameworks.
Kohlberg believed that there was a stage six of moral development, but was not able to find enough subjects who could define it.
Kohlberg's (1958a) core sample from his dissertation was comprised of 72 boys, from both middle- and lower-class families in Chicago.
cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/nike/nike_corporation_moral_development.htm   (5215 words)

  
 Ethics Connection - Can Ethics Be Taught?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kohlberg was one of the first people to look seriously at whether a person's ability to deal with ethical issues can develop in later life and whether education can affect that development.
Kohlberg found that a person's ability to deal with moral issues is not formed all at once.
Kohlberg discovered that when his subjects took courses in ethics and these courses challenged them to look at issues from a universal point of view, they tended to move upward through the levels.
www.nd.edu /~rbarger/kohlberg.htm   (683 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Essays on Moral Development, by Lawrence Kohlberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lawrence Kohlberg is a Harvard psychologist who has been insisting for two decades that the study of children's moral reasoning can guide society in distinguishing right from wrong.
...Kohlberg estimates the number of stage 6's to be 5 percent of the American population, but his only sustained example of a 6 is Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Kohlberg now applies this to morals: since a child is disposed to pass through the levels of morality anyway, the teacher should boost him along with provocative tales about theft and murder...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V73I1P86-1.htm   (1913 words)

  
 Gilligan
Kohlberg's system was based on extensive research he and his students did with interviews in which they asked children and adults to give the reasons they had for moral decisions Kohlberg presented them with.
As a student of Kohlberg's, Gilligan was taken by the stage theory approach to understanding moral reasoning.
So she thought Kohlberg was all wet, at least with regard to women's development in moral thinking.
www.stolaf.edu /people/huff/classes/handbook/Gilligan.html   (1670 words)

  
 Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Kohlberg observed that growing children advance through definite stages of moral development in a manner similar to their progression through Piaget's well-known stages of cognitive development.
Kohlberg's concept of consecutive stages of moral development is rich with theological implications.
An application of Kohlberg's stage theory is especially relevant to current discussions of the gospel, the atonement, the Law, and the true character of God.
www.aggelia.com /htdocs/kohlberg.shtml   (5260 words)

  
 kohlberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kohlberg claimed that these moral stages were universal.
Gilligan noted that Kohlberg’s subjects were all men, and wondered how the data could possibly relate to women.
She also noted that Kohlberg’s tests, given to women in the 1960’s, revealed that women seldom develop beyond stage 3 in K’s system.
socrates.berkeley.edu /~psy142/kohlberg.htm   (522 words)

  
 Kohlberg, Krupp, Zielonka Became Business and Civic Leaders
In several letters, Kohlberg complained about the terms of his contract with Schutz, but he was generally positive about his relationship with the Schutzes.
Kohlberg and his friends often traveled across the river to attend parties and dances given by Mexican families.
Ernst Kohlberg died on June 17, 1910, but his improvements, dedication and love of El Paso lived on through his wife, children and their heirs.
epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/20_kohlberg_krupp_zielonka.htm   (1473 words)

  
 Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Kohlberg's contribution was entitled "The concepts of Developmental Psychology as the Central Guide to Education: Examples from Cognitive, Moral, and Psychological Education." The document is further marked "A publication of the Leadership Training Institute/Special education, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational Personnel Development, U.S. Office of Education".
Kohlberg contrasts Stage 0 with other theories in a couple of other tables in the article, so he may have made a "custom alteration" to the theory for the purpose of this particular set of comparisons.
Gilligan argues that Kohlberg’s rule-oriented conception of morality has an orientation toward justice, which she associates with stereotypically male thinking, whereas women and girls are perhaps more likely to approach moral dilemmas with a "care" orientation.
www.xenodochy.org /ex/lists/moraldev.html   (1187 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KOHLBERG, OLGA BERNSTEIN
Olga Bernstein Kohlberg, El Paso philanthropist and founder of the first public kindergarten in Texas, was born in Elberfeld, Westphalia (then part of Rhenish Prussia), on August 2, 1864, the daughter of David and Emilie (Aronstein) Bernstein.
Olga Kohlberg served twice as president of the club, in 1899-1900 and again in 1901-02, and remained an honorary board member for the rest of her life.
Kohlberg helped organize the El Paso Public Library, and in 1903 she became the second president of the library's board of directors.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fko9.html   (529 words)

  
 An Overview of Moral Development and Moral Education
Kohlberg followed the development of moral judgment beyond the ages studied by Piaget, and determined that the process of attaining moral maturity took longer and was more gradual than Piaget had proposed.
Kohlberg rejected the focus on values and virtues, not only due to the lack of consensus on what virtues are to be taught, but also because of the complex nature of practicing such virtues.
It was Turiel's insight to recognize that what Kohlberg's theory attempts to account for within a single developmental framework is in fact the set of age-related efforts people make at different points in development to coordinate their social normative understandings from several different domains.
tigger.uic.edu /~lnucci/MoralEd/overview.html   (4784 words)

  
 Generic Virus Writer
Kohlberg's ethical model provides age trends in three moral levels of development, with two stages within each level.
While Kohlberg's model is well suited for the purposes of this study, the Gilligan model can be helpful in addressing gender issues of virus writing from the standpoint of ethical development.
Further studies conducted by Kohlberg and his associates have shown that the majority of non-criminals are classified in stages three and four, while a majority of criminals are classified in stages one and two [20].
www.research.ibm.com /antivirus/SciPapers/Gordon/GenericVirusWriter.html   (7478 words)

  
 Ch 7 - Kohlberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kohlberg believed that Piaget's work on moral development in children was good, but not detailed enough
Kohlberg argued that earlier reasoning is integrated with reasoning from higher stages (i.e.
Kohlberg et al, 1975: due to greater influence of laws and rules, greater likelihood of moral behavior in people at Stage 4 than at Stage 3
danielson.laurentian.ca /drdnotes/5106ch07.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Lawrence Kohlberg
The next criticims attack Kohlberg's claim that his stages of moral development are universal, applying equally to all human beings (and genders) across cultural divisions.
Gilligan pointed out that all of Kohlberg's original subjects were male, as was Kohlberg himself, and that they therefore failed to place a high value on the morality of care, sacrifice and community.
According to Kohlberg's upper-class Western view of moral reasoning, communitarian morality is doomed to rest forever at a lower stage of development (Stages 3 and 4).
www.candleinthedark.com /kohlberg.html   (2214 words)

  
 Green Bay Press-Gazette - Kohlberg buying International Papers’ Industrial Papers Business
Kohlberg and Co. is a private equity company specializing in middle-market investing.
Kohlberg has a reputation of investing in the wide range of businesses it owns, he said.
Heim assumed that Kohlberg is looking at the deal as a platform from which to build the businesses rather than spin them off.
www.greenbaypressgazette.com /news/archive/local_20229134.shtml   (942 words)

  
 Kohlberg
Churchward believes that rates of progression through the stages of Kohlberg's model differ from student to student, but that the progression from stage to stage is the same regardless of sex, race, or culture.
He, like Kohlberg, believed students followed a progression of stages on the road to self-discipline, and each student progressed through those stages at his or her own personal rate.
Kohlberg defined a subject's level of moral reasoning from the reasoning used to defend his or her position when faced with a moral dilemma.
eqi.org /kohlberg.htm   (2634 words)

  
 Merchants of Debt
Kohlberg would find lenders who would provide the bulk of the capital for the purchase of the business in return for an appropriate interest rate on the debt and perhaps a share of the equity.
Kohlberg limited his work to arranging friendly takeovers and was known for his integrity.
At first there was a problem of personality differences between Kohlberg and Kravis but Kravis adapted himself and he and Roberts formed an effective and efficient with Kohlberg.
www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/kkr.htm   (2210 words)

  
 Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development - Austega Gifted Resource Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
KOHLBERG'S APPROACH to levels of moral development is attractive, particularly in the context of the gifted who are often accused of being immature on the grounds that they do not always readily find a set of social peers.
To put Kohlberg's moral stages into perspective it is appropriate to mention two criticisms.
Another criticism of Kohlberg's theory is that it is biased towards western cultures.
www.austega.com /gifted/moralKohlberg.htm   (548 words)

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