Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 5)

Cover......Page 1
Moral judgement\rfrom childhood to adolescence......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 12
The contemporary scene......Page 15
A changing society......Page 16
The impact of new knowledge......Page 17
Religion and morality......Page 18
The origin of conscience......Page 19
The relevance of psychology......Page 20
The relevance of sociology......Page 21
The work of Piaget......Page 22
The morality of constraint......Page 23
The morality of co-operation......Page 24
Critique of Piaget......Page 25
The Character Education Enquiry......Page 27
University of Chicago Studies of Values......Page 29
Moral values......Page 30
Moral education......Page 31
Stages of development......Page 33
Levels of judgement......Page 34
Anomy: pre-morality......Page 35
Heteronomy: external morality......Page 36
Socionomy: external-internal morality......Page 37
Autonomy: internal morality......Page 38
Variable factors......Page 40
The home......Page 41
Religious influence......Page 42
Sex differences......Page 44
Intelligence......Page 45
The place of variables......Page 47
Methodology......Page 48
Projection tests......Page 49
Verbalism......Page 51
Constructing visual tests......Page 52
Selection of moral situations......Page 53
Depicting the five moral themes......Page 55
Personal details sheet......Page 56
Pilot testing......Page 57
The final sample......Page 58
Age......Page 59
Socio-economic class......Page 60
Religious class......Page 61
Church attendance......Page 62
The research project......Page 63
The value of life......Page 64
Is saving life instinctive?......Page 65
Anomy and Heteronomy......Page 66
Sympathy and reciprocity......Page 67
Conclusions......Page 78
The nature of reciprocity......Page 84
The Golden Rule......Page 85
The range of reciprocity......Page 86
Reciprocity and conscience......Page 87
The genesis of conscience......Page 88
The super-ego......Page 89
Conscience: a conditioned reflex?......Page 90
Types of conscience......Page 91
Definitions of conscience......Page 92
The development of conscience......Page 98
Factors affecting conscience......Page 100
Cheating......Page 104
Total group scores......Page 118
Girls’ lead in total group scores......Page 122
Comparative findings from the Cheating Test (I)......Page 123
Comparative findings from the Cheating Test (II)......Page 124
Comparison with Piaget’s results: games......Page 125
Comparative Findings from the Cheating Test (III): Games......Page 126
The test situation......Page 128
Stealing: cloakroom......Page 129
The pattern of development......Page 144
Stealing by finding and keeping......Page 145
The pattern of development......Page 150
Comparative Total Scores......Page 151
Lying: 1......Page 154
Lying: 2......Page 155
Telling the truth......Page 156
Definition of a lie......Page 158
Why is lying wrong?......Page 159
Increase in Total Score......Page 168
Lying to children and adults......Page 172
Lying to children and to adults......Page 173
Lying to Parents:—Heteronomy......Page 176
Lying to Parents: 3. Personalistic......Page 177
Lying to Parents: 4. Categories as Percentages......Page 178
Specificity......Page 182
Consistency......Page 183
The legitimacy of lying for a friend......Page 185
Typical responses......Page 186
Approval of telling tales......Page 194
Reciprocity responses in 3 lying situations......Page 195
White lies responses in 3 lying situations......Page 196
The purpose of written tests......Page 200
(A)......Page 201
The development of grouped values......Page 208
Good deeds and bad deeds......Page 209
The Four Universal Vices......Page 211
(C)......Page 215
Subjects Approaching Consistency in Autonomy......Page 220
(D) Vice and Virtue Right or wrong stories......Page 221
What would be fair?......Page 225
Lending property......Page 230
Lending property: Sex differences......Page 231
Responses indicating equity......Page 232
(F)......Page 233
Religious class and religious attitudes: Correlations......Page 236
Methodology......Page 237
Bibliography......Page 246
Index......Page 256