Forgiveness Education With Adult Learners

Moral issues always have enjoyed a place within the research tradition of educational psychology. We see this in the early work on children’s cheating behavior and honesty in the classroom (Harthshorne & May, 1928), in Kohlberg’s interventions on adolescents’ understanding of justice (Kohlberg, 1986), and in the resurgent interest in character education (Lickona, 1991). A new area within the study of moral development is forgiveness.