The Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Education Theory And It's Revelation On Honesty And Credibility Education For Middle School Students

Honesty and credibility, the moral development is a significant research subject under the current time background. The research on Middle students of Honesty and credibility constitutes one of the important research contents in areas of adolescent development. With the social transformation and the establishment of market economic system China, the problem of honesty and credit has aroused great concern in both practical and theoretical field, especially in education region.Based on the individual, it is a good way to develop our moral education to learn successful experiences of other countries. Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987), who was an American moral psychologist and moral education theoretician, preceded other experts in the field of moral cognition study at the time. His theory deeply affected the development of theory and practice of moral education in United States and the whole world.The division and explanation of children's moral cognition development is the mainstay of Kohlberg's moral education theory. He put foreword the basic theory of stages in the field. Scientifically and systematically, he divided the period of moral cognition development into "Stages of Moral Development". According to his theory, he firmly opposed to indoctrinate moral education into children. Meanwhile, he explored the methods of Honesty and credibility education for Middle School Students, such as "discussion in the class" and "group with fairness", which could show an appropriate way for our study.It is necessary for us to establish a new system of Honesty and credibility education for Middle School Students. The theory of Kohlberg tells us that we must pay much attention to the following points: 1. establishing new idea of Honesty and credibility education for Middle School Students and increasing its effectiveness; 2. taking advantage of different stages of moral development; 3. making full use of practices and activities; 4. exploring the new model to accelerate the students' development of Honesty and credibility.