ABSTRACT

It is our purpose in this chapter to show that Kohlberg's moral development theory and the cognitive developmental approach (Kohlberg, 1969) are alive and well. We shall do this by claiming that the Kohlbergian approach is responsible for generating a host of important social cognitive developmental domains, such as legal development, interpersonal understanding, conventional reasoning, and belief discrepancy reasoning, as well as for establishing an important theoretical link between role-taking and morality.