Lawrence Kohlberg devised a theory of moral development which postulates that moral reasoning passes through six stages from early childhood to adulthood. Kohlberg’s stages are sorted into three discontinuous levels: preconventional morality, conventional morality, and post-conventional morality. Each stage...
Kohlberg's Stages Criticisms Kohlberg's theory of moral development has sustained criticism on several fronts, the least not being the fact that his studies were conducted on boys between the ages of 10-16. This reduces the generalizability of his findings due to age and gender bias. In other...
Journal of Moral EducationBouhmama D. (1984) Assessment of Kohlberg's stages of moral development in two cultures. Journal of Moral Education 13, 124 -132.Bouhmama, D. (1984), "Assessment of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development in Two Cultures", Journal of Moral Education, 13(2): ...
The stepwise invariant sequence hypothesis of Kohlberg's six-stage theory of moral judgment development was assessed in 35 males (ages 11 years 8 months to 14 years 7 months) over a 2 1/2-year interval. The interview version of Kohlberg's measure and the latest scoring method were employed...