ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the psychological aspect of the multi-dimensional picture of moral development. It provides six possible models for moral development. Firstly, the model of intellectual growth. Secondly, there is the attitudinal model in which moral growth is deemed to be a process of developing moral attitudes. The remaining four models are: evolutionary model, ethical model, sociological model, and psychological model. In moral education one is also concerned with conduct; probably more concerned with conduct than with ethical thought. The intellectual model is inadequate when attention is turned from ethical discourse to moral conduct itself. It is precisely at the point where the developmental model becomes inadequate that the 'attitude' model becomes appropriate. The advantage of thinking of moral development in terms of moral attitudes can soon be made clear. It is at exactly those points where the 'intellectual model' is inadequate that the 'attitudinal model' is of value.
