core - developmental

• Moral person


  Someone who always seeks to do the right thing
• Hugh Hartshorne and Mark May study


  • 5 year investigation into children's moral character called character education inquiry
  • Tested over 11,000 children observing them where they can steal cheat and lie
  • Found wide variation of behaviour with most being moral
  • Used a pragmatic rather than absolutist approach
• Kohlberg 1968 - moral reasoning and development


  • Babies have no concept of right or wrong
  • Influenced by Piaget and saw development as going through stages
  • Each child goes through the stages in the same order and is determined by biological maturation and interaction with the environment
  • Defined morality based on Socratic notions of justice