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Compare and Contrast.docx  [Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines]  Compare and Contrast Moral Development   EDUC 500  43883  Compare and Contrast Moral Development  Describing Jean Piagets Theory of oral Development:  Piaget viewed cognitive development and moral development as being linked. His “theory of cognitive development includes theory about the development of moral reasoning” (Slavin and Schunk, 2017, p. 53). According to Piaget, childrens moral development transitions from a heteronomous stage, where a child feels to be controlled by others, into the autonomous stage, knowing that the rules are changeable. He believed that morality isnt instilled into a child until or around the ages of 9 and.10 because they are able to recognize and grasp moral and social interactions.  Before that age “childrens feelings about right and wrong are based on the amount of visible damage that they can see, rather than the cause behind it (Ryan, 2011).   Describing Lawrence Kohlbergs Theory of Moral Development:  “Kohlberg believed that the development of the logical structures proposed by Piaget is necessary to, although not sufficient for, advances in the area of moral judgement and reasoning” (Slavin and Schunk, 2017, p 52-53).  Even though Kohlberg was in agreeance of Piagets theory, he “was not satisfied with Piaget two stages” (Ryan 2011) and felt that it needed to be expanded upon, by breaking his theory down into 3 levels and 6 stages from birth into adulthood, but as time has pa