The article presents one perspective on how children can be encouraged to develop moral judgement. The recalcitrance that Piaget encounters in his attempts to teach his own daughter a specific mundane rule provide a focus for much of the discussion. The differing impact of two separate strategies for conveying the point of rules, both on immediate behaviour and on long-term judgement, is assessed. A major conclusion concerns the need to modify discourse in order to teach the young, and the article concludes by discussing an additional example of this, telling children stories.
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