This research will be looking into the moral, social-conventional and personal reasoning that co-exist in children’s evaluations of inclusion and exclusion, racial prejudice and gender differences. It is noted that the priority given to these forms of judgments varies by the age of the child, the context and the target of exclusion which is discussed in previous studies.
Racial prejudice is a pre-formed personal opinion about individuals on the basis of their race. For example, John thinks that Mary will have bad attribute X solely because Mary is a member of race Y.
According to Kohlberg’s (1984) foundational stage model of moral development which had followed Piaget’s research on moral judgement, Children justify acts as right or wrong on the first basis of consequences to the self which is known as the pre-conventional stage. In terms of group norms (the conventional stage) and the post-conventional stage, this means a justice perspective in which individual principles......

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Title: Children’s Opinions Through Social And Moral Judgement On Racial And Gender Differences.
Approximate Word Count: 2018
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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