ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that educators are increasingly accepting the view that a pattern of development can be discerned in every area of a child's personality. Many educators would talk about intellectual development and recognize the clearly defined elements within it. They have been content to speak of moral development without acknowledging that it is as equally complex in a similar way. The chapter describes the simple view that moral development passes through different stages and that the behaviour characteristic of each stage. The elements of moral development can thus be teased out into the following four categories: simple stages of development, moral sanctions, moral judgment, and psycho-social development. Teachers should not only come to expect different kinds of morality from the three different age-groups, but must clearly accommodate their attempts at moral education to the developmental level of these children in our infant, junior and secondary schools respectively.
