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My aim in this paper is to clarify the significance of the social and political assumptions underlying the program for educational reform that is emerging from the work of Lawrence Kohlberg and his followers. I will presume some familiarity with Kohlberg’s research on moral development and moral education, but my main point can be made outside the framework he develops. Kohlberg is interested in devising and implementing programs that will promote the moral development of those who participate. They involve not only discussion of moral dilemmas, but the actual development of democratic structures for collective decision-making about institutional policies.(1)
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Hoffman, E. (1982). Educating for Justice in an Unjust Society. In: Cafagna, A.C., Peterson, R.T., Staudenbaur, C.A. (eds) Philosophy, Children, and the Family. Child Nurturance, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3473-6_33
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