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SAMPAIO, Leonardo Rodrigues. Psychology and moral education. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2007, vol.27, n.4, pp. 584-595. ISSN 1414-9893.

In Psychology, the branch of studies about moral development, from a psychogenetic perspective, began with the 1932 book Moral Judgment of the Child. In this book, Jean Piaget refers to a set of experiments demonstrating that morality and acquisitions in the cognition and affective field are related. Nowadays, this field of studies has grown constantly and produced new theories and intervention accounts in the scope of moral education. The objective of this paper is to present a brief overview of the main psychological theories that deal with moral development, demonstrating some interventions and arguing that education is a privileged space for the development of social moral awareness which has not been duly used to advantage in Brazil.

Palavras-chave : Morality; Psychology; Education.

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