Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education

by F. Clark Power, Lawrence Kohlberg, Ann Higgins

Book Overview

Lawrence Kohlberg's Approach to Moral Education presents what the late Lawrence Kohlberg regarded as the definitive statement of his educational theory. Addressing the sociology and social psychology of schooling, the authors propose that school culture become the center of moraleducation and research. They discuss how schools can develop as just and cohesive communities by involving students in democracy, and they focus on the moral decisions teachers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231059779
• ISBN13: 9780231059770
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

the Just Community Theory

This book is a review of the implementation of Kohlberg's six stages of moral development and his desire to put theory into practice. The reader learns about Kohlberg's journey from a theoretical idea of the six stages to a practical usage of the idea. A new concept emerged and that is the theory of the just community. In a just community, students and teachers are equals and they use the forum of school to discuss real-life moral dilemmas in order to further the students' moral reasoning. The book itself focuses on the implementations (as done by Kohlberg and his colleagues). The other important thing to keep in mind about this book is that it is practically the only place, in print, where the reader can find information about the just community directly from Kohlberg's words.