The Moral Judgment of the Child

by Jean Piaget (Author)

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This classic study examines a problem that stands at the heart of society: How does a child distinguish between right and wrong?
Professor Piaget and his colleagues begin their investigation by analyzing the "rules of the game" - in this case a seemingly simple game of marbles - as handed down from one group of children to another. They observe the child's total acceptance of the consensus rules and describe the moral pressure of the group on the individual. Piaget proceeds to an analysis of lying, cheating, adult authority, punishment, and responsibility, noting and evaluating the changing attitudes of growing children toward these "moral realities."
The book concludes with a comparison of the findings of this significant study with those theories in social psychology and sociology that bear directly on the moral development of the child.

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Free Press (December 16, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0684833301
ISBN-13: 978-0684833309
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #514,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1453 in Medical Child Psychology
- #594 in Developmental Psychology (Books)
- #1435 in Popular Child Psychology

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Nicholas Roberts

Moral Judgement

August 6, 2013

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Piaget did an excellent job in this book describing how children make moral decisions. He provides tons of supporting information that makes the readers really think about the way that children develop. The book starts out by him talking about games that children play in Switzerland at that time period. He goes over the different rules and regulations of the games which he says explain how children think about things such as fairness. For example, today, kids in tag may not let the younger children get tagged as easily showing that they have compassion for their younger comrades as well as try to even the playing field.

Piaget then goes into different topics and describes why children of that age think the way that they do. He uses simple examples such as if a child broke 50 glasses by accident and another broke one on purpose who is more "evil"? Younger children tend to pick the former and older, the latter. He follows this trend throughout the whole book and covers such things as fate (if a child falls through a bridge did he do so because he was being punished?). Overall the book is very interesting and readable. If you are interested in child psychology I highly recommend it.

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Onesimus

Binding of this books will break if you try to open wide enough to read.

February 20, 2019

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Don’t by this from Amazon. The book itself is a pure piece of shoddy workmanship. I mean the binding, the print, the paper. Like it was made off a copy machine and glued into a book in someone’s garage. I want my money back.
That being said, I’d rate Piaget’s work 5/5.

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truth

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August 15, 2015

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Great reading even though it is very technical

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Meredith Martin

Five Stars

December 28, 2014

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excellent

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cantrennia harris

Five Stars

October 7, 2015

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Great read.

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Jordan Bell

Constraint and cooperation

August 22, 2017

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This is the English translation of Piaget’s 1932 “Le jugement moral chez l'enfant”. This is Piaget’s fifth book on child psychology.

“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child’s judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”

1923. Le langage et la pensée chez l'enfant

1924. Le jugement et le raisonnement chez l'enfant

1926. La représentation du monde chez l'enfant

1927. La causalité physique chez l'enfant

1932. Le jugement moral chez l'enfant

1936. La naissance de l'intelligence chez l'enfant

1937. La construction du réel chez l'enfant

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ONE OF PIAGET'S MOST INTERESTING BOOKS

August 18, 2010

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Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are known as "genetic epistemology".

He states in the Foreword, "Readers will find this book has no direct analysis of child morality as it is practiced in home and school life or in children's societies. It is the moral judgment that we propose to investigate, not moral behaviour or sentiments. With this aim in view we questioned a large number of chldren ... and held conversations with them, similar to those we had had before on their conception of the world and of causality. The present volume contains the results of these conversations."

Here are some representative quotations from this book:

"Is it, then, the loss of belief in the divine or adult origin of rules that allows the child to think of innovations, or is it the consciousness of autonomy that dispels the myth of revelation?"
"Thus the adult leads the child to the notion of objective responsibility, and consolidates in consequence a tendency that is already natural to the spontaneous mentality of little children."
"In short, there is life and purpose in everything. Why should not things be the accomplices of grown-ups in making sure that a punishment is inflicted where the parents' vigilance may have been evaded?"
"It cannot be denied that the idea of punishment has psycho-biological roots. Blow calls for blow and gentleness moves us to gentleness ... (but) the individual factors cannot of themselves transcend the stage of impulsive vengeance without finding themselves subject---at least implicitly---to the system of regulated and codified sanctions implied in retributive justice."
"It is only by knowing our individual nature with its limitations as well as its resources that we grow capable of coming out of ourselves and collaborating with other individual natures. Consciousness of self is therefore both a product and a condition of cooperation."
"This concordance of our results with those of historico-critical or logico-sociological analysis beings us to a second point: the parallelism existing between moral and intellectual development."

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October 26, 2005

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As a professional educator, it's always great to review and reread the works of the great theorists such as Piaget. I consider him to be the father of educational psychology as well as a a great cognitive theorist.

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