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Moral autonomy - issues of measurement Distinction between moral behavior and moral development Kohlberg & Gilligan debate about the nature or moral development Piagetian framework Exercise: How would you measure moral development? Step 1: Interview Task: Collect data from two interviews as examples of moral development Procedure: Do interview, writing down all the important information remember, what you will need to judge moral development is the THINKING about issues, not the answer per se Switch places

Step 2: Analysis: Task: Develop a scheme that would allow you to judge the level of moral development and criteria that you would use to judge sophistication Procedure: Define your criteria for moral development remember, it's a factor in COGNITIVE development. What are signs of more or less sophisticated cognitive development? Do you think that moral development is linear (i.e. that there are greater or less degrees of moral development) or that there are different types (like parenting style, there are several completely different ways to think about moral development that are qualitatively different)? Define SPECIFIC criteria by which you would judge moral development, using examples from your data