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...group of young inmates in a New England reformatory began meeting regularly last year to talk about a subject that normally receives little attention in prisons: ethics. They were participating in a novel experiment designed by Harvard Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg to teach moral judgment-not by sermons, but through open discussions...
Wide Cross Section. This change in attitude seems to bear out Kohlberg's unique theories, formulated in the course of 15 years of research in the field of moral psychology. He believes that morality "is not a bag of virtues" (honesty, generosity, loyalty and the like) but an idea of justice that is primitive in young children and becomes more sophisticated as a child passes through distinct stages of moral development...
...first of these six stages, which Kohlberg established after interviewing a cross section of youngsters about imaginary moral problems, "right" behavior is based on fear of punishment. In the second stage, the criterion is selfish need -as in the case of a child who believed a man should steal a lifesaving drug for his wife because if she dies "there'll be no one to cook his food...
...changed. In the opinion of those who reach Stage 6, unjust laws may be broken, because morality is grounded not in legality or in specific rules like the Ten Commandments but in abstract principles of justice and respect for the individual. At this level, a 16-year-old told Kohlberg he would steal to save a life because "human life is above financial gain...
...addition to Lesser, Kagan, Mrs. Chall, and Sheldon White, six members of the Ed School Faculty-professors Lawrence Kohlberg. Chester M. Pierce, Courtney B, Cazden, Burton L. White, Marion I Walter, and Leon Eisenberg-helped to work out the shape of "Sesame Street...