The case against the method and implications of Lawrence Kohlberg's system of teaching for moral education /

Lawrence Kohlberg's approach to values education based upon his moral developmental stages has, since the seventies, dominated the field of moral education where it has often become a substitute for traditional and direct moral teaching.This thesis will attempt to demonstrate that Kohlberg's approach to moral education cannot, by its very nature, be a viable alternative for moral education in regard to either individual or societal moral needs.Although Kohlberg's system has been defended for its "classroom dilemmas", associated pedagogical techniques and its "just community" approach to problem solving, this thesis will attempt to show that these approaches have consequences which are in themselves detrimental to the development of a positive moral standard. The use of Kohlberg's system would result in extreme subjectivism and relativism which are destructive to a basic objective moral standard for society