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Walker, Lawrence J. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Challenges Carol Gilligan's (1982) assertion that there are two fundamentally different and gender-related orientations to morality, namely a male justice orientation and a female care orientation. Argues that Gilligan's view that these orientations are logically and psychologically incompatible and that their developmental origins are in early…
Descriptors: Children, Criticism, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Senchuk, Dennis M. – Educational Theory, 1981
The validity of Lawrence Kohlberg's empirical findings and of his cognitive developmental approach to understanding moral development is questioned. An alternative theory of moral development which emphasizes moral sensibility as well as reasoned moral judgment is proposed. (PP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Cognitive Development