Abstract

FREITAS, Lia Beatriz de Lucca. Moral autonomy in Jean Piaget works: the complexity of concept and it’s importance to education. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2002, n.19, pp.11-22. ISSN 0104-4060.

The results of a qualitative research showed little understanding of the concept of moral autonomy. Participants were teachers of nursery schools in Porto Alegre (RS) where educational methods were based on Piaget’s theory. The principal aim of this paper is the explanation of Piaget’s concept of moral autonomy. This concept is very important to educators since Piaget says that the purpose of education should be the autonomy. Our approach includes: 1- how the construction of moral autonomy became a problem to be investigated by Piaget; 2- the process of constructing moral autonomy through human development. We try to emphasize importance of education for the human being to archive moral autonomy.

Keywords : Ethics; Constructivism; Moral Development.

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