For nearly thirty years he has amplified his Cognitive-Developmental theory of moralisation which has now become prominent in the field of moral development and its application to moral education. Kohlberg proposed that moral difficulties motivated their own development through a fixed sequence of increasingly adaptable kinds of moral reasoning.

He conducted most of his work at Harvard University and developed his stage model in 1969.

Working through the 1950's and 60's using longitudinal and cross sectional studies he proposed 6 stages of development (see Appendix 1) identified through the responses of children presented with moral dilemmas. Piaget, his former tutor, proposed only 2 stages of moral development these being the Hetronomous and Autonomous stages.

He was not so much interested in the judgments made but the reasons for the judgment, differing from Piaget he saw the stages as part of cognitive development.

He was interested in how people think rather than what they think.

These reasons represent to Kohlberg the structure of judgment, centering around 10 universal moral issues or values. Pia

Kurtines, W. Gray E. (1974) 'The development of Moral Thought Review and Evaluation of Kohlberg's Approach; Psychological Bulletin 81 8 pp 453-70

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