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Peer reviewedLocke, Don – Journal of Moral Education, 1979
After some preliminary doubts about Kohlberg's method of assessing moral reasoning, six claims of his "stage-structural" theory are criticized: (1) that the stages constitute structural wholes; (2) their invariant sequence; (3) their cultural universality; (4) their logical necessity; (5) increasing cognitive adequacy; and (6) increasing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes, Developmental Stages, Learning Theories
