Moral development : the relationship between intentionality in moral judgement and field dependence.

Moral education began to follow a new direction when, in the 1960's, the cognitive developmental approach ushered in a new era in research into moral development. The conceptual framework and methodology for this new approach, and for the present study was derived from the earlier work of Piaget (1932) who maintained that logical and moral thinking existed as a genetic parallel developed through the same cognitive processes and structures