ABSTRACT
Lawrence Kohlberg was an educator, psychologist and philosopher, and regarded by many as an intellectual giant who followed in the footsteps of Socrates, Jean Piaget and John Dewey. Kohlberg's work was centred on the development of moral judgement in children and adults using a cognitive developmental approach involving Piagetian stage theory. A stream of research and publication focused on moral behaviour, and here notions of just communities and democratic action dominated his work. Kohlberg himself described the genesis of his interest in morality as rooted in the experience of the Nazi tyranny during his time in boarding school and college. In the progressive view, this aim requires an educational environment that actively stimulates development through the presentation of resolvable but genuine problems or conflicts. In Kohlberg's view, there is a unity between cognitive and moral development, between the affective and intellectual domain.
