Ever since G. Stanley Hall’s 1892 description of infants learning to love because of the mother’s embrace, the field of moral development has been searching for the answer to one of humanity’s most ...

Piaget’s stages of development include sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. While there is some criticism of them, they may help characterize child development.

How do children think about right and wrong? Moral Stages and Broken Glasses The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget is renowned for his stage theory of development. According to Piaget, children advance ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, it is important to understand how students think and learn so as to be able to teach effectively. Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, profoundly impacted ...

Human Development, Vol. 35, No. 5 (1992), pp. 286-301 (16 pages) This article addresses the relationship between ego and moral development, as represented by the theories of Erikson and Kohlberg.