Abstract

GLASER, Jacqueline Andréa  and  FAVRE, Johnny Guedes de Lima. Morality as an obstacle to systematic learning. Rev. psicopedag. [online]. 2008, vol.25, n.76, pp. 2-13. ISSN 0103-8486.

There is an obstacle preventing the appropriation of knowledge among some children which translates into a repetition to school, so consequently, a failure at school. That obstacle, has not necessarily cognitive, functional, emotional or social, but apparently moral origin. The objective of this research is to investigate about the value obedience (state of heteronomy) among children as a possible cause of school failure, due to the link between obedience, authority and rules. This research was set up with 13 children from 8 to 11 years old, namely, learning of elementary schools in Lyon - France. Our protocol is consisting of using moral stories, checking the rules consciousness among children and analysis the level of cognitive structure, as well as giving the projective test of "Family Educational" drawing that allows us to assess what the relationship is learning between parents and children in school failure and the possible link with their moral development. Our results have shown us that most of our subjects were still in the stage of moral heteronomy. The majority of them have not yet acquired consciousness of the rules, so they live in a state in which respect is predominantly unilateral, and they are facing difficulties to throw off their point of view and to move to the point of view of other, as prerequisite to learn.

Keywords : Moral development; Child; Learning disorders.

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