Revelation of Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Cognitive Development Theory on China's Contemporary Moral Education

Moral cognitive development theory is the most influential moral theory in the modern western moral education schools,founded by Lawrence Kohlberg,a famous American moral psychologist,by assimilating John Dewey's progressive research on moral education and Jean Piaget's theory on development of children's moral cognition.Lawrence Kohlberg's theory has been widely and effectively practiced by moral theorists and educators all over the world.In China,the contemporary moral education is featured by lofty tone but low efficiency.Lawrence Kohlberg's moral cognitive development theory has brought us a lot of revelations on changing this situation.This paper suggests that the traditional stuffed moral educational mode be changed to the guided one.The student-centered teaching mode is also advocated to foster and improve students' moral judgment.