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Moral Development
What is moral development?
By nature, moral development concerns rules and regulations about what
people should do in their interactions with others.
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The child developmentalists
believe that how children think, behave, and feel about such rules and
regulations and through these ways of observations from society they proceed
for moral development.
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In 1932, Piaget wrote a book
on Moral Judgment of the Child in which he discussed the stages of
child’s moral development, (from the personal observation and from the
experimental research) after studying children for many years, often his own
children. Piaget argued that as children grow, they proceed through a series
of psychological stages that are defined by the changing ways in which
children operate upon the world.
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With the processes of
assimilation and accommodation in mind, Jean Piaget came up with four stages
of cognitive, moral and intellectual development.
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