Abstract

LEJARRAGA, Horacio. The development of the ethical thinking in children and the teaching of ethics in pediatrics. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2008, vol.106, n.5, pp.422-428. ISSN 0325-0075.

The child's ethical thinking is not installed in his mind as a single act, but as a consequence of an evolving process. Kohlberg, based on Piaget's studies, described three main developmental stages: preconventional, conventional and post conventional. However, Vigostky and others emphasized the importance of the environment for the moral sculpture of children. Three models can be recognised for teaching ethics in children: the deontological way, the descriptive way, and the only one morally acceptable: the one used by Socrates, by which ethics becomes not merely an adjective, but an institutionalised social practice built on axiological basis.

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