Pre and Elementary-School Children's Conceptions of Moral and Conventional Rules

• Autor(a) principal: Aragão Martins, Raul
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17252
• topic: Desenvolvimento sócio-moral; Julgamento moral; Domínio moral; Domínio sócio-convencional; Socio-moral development; Moral judgement; Moral domain; Socio-convcntional domain

The present study examined the responses to moral and social-conventional events given by pre andelementary-school children. Four stories - two moral and two social-conventional - were presented to 72 children, 24 of apreschool and 48 of the first and third grades of an elementary school, both public. Justification responses were assessed, aswell as criteria for judging rule seriousness, punishment for the transgressor, rule contingency and relativity. Results indicatedthe complexity of the children's social moral judgement. A clear distinction between responses to moral and social conventionalevents was not found. The results were analyzed in the light of Piagel's moral development theory (1977), Turicl's socialknowledge development theory (1983), and Shweder, Mahapatra, and Miller's social communication theory (1987).