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Levine, Charles G. – Human Development, 1979
Evaluates the differing perspectives of Kohlberg and Turiel on moral reasoning. Both perspectives use stage displacement models to depict moral development and assume that as ontogenesis proceeds, the role played by earleir acquired moral stages becomes increasingly insignificant in comparison with the role played by more advanced stages. The…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Models, Moral Development, Opinions

Baribeau, Jacinthe M. C.; Braun, Claude M. J. – Human Development, 1978
Philosophical tendencies in Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of moral development such as apriorism, absolutism and formalism are unfavorably contrasted with the dialectical categories of historicism, double interactionism and reflection. In logic and epistemology the cognitive-developmental theory is shown to be based on a subjective…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Epistemology, Moral Development, Opinions

Gibbs, J. C. – Human Development, 1979
Reconceptualizes Kohlberg's theory and research on moral stages in the light of recent criticisms. A proposed revision describes moral development in adulthood as existential rather than Piagetian and restricts moral judgment in the standard stage sense to childhood and adolescence. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages