Elliot Turiel

born in 1938

PhD in Psychology from Yale

American psychologist and

Chancellor’s Professor at the
Graduate School of Education at
the University of California,
Berkeley
The start of Turiel’s Ideas
 based his theory of moral development off of
psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg’s framework of
moral reasoning.
 Kohlberg stated that, “moral judgements may
be defined as judgements that oblige an
individual to take action”.
 Kohlberg’s theory:
There are three types of reasoners:
preconventional, conventional, and post
conventional.
 DOMAIN THEORY
Moral domain theory has
proposed that individuals acquire
moral concepts about fairness, others’
welfare, and rights (the “moral”
domain) beginning in early childhood,
and that this knowledge develops
during childhood and adolescence.
3 DOMAINS OF KNOWLEDGE
1. the moral- principles of how individuals ought to
treat one another

2. the societal- regulations designed to promote

the smooth functioning of social groups and
institutions

3. the psychological- an understanding of self,

others, and beliefs about autonomy and individuality
IMPLICATIONS

Moral education should guide the

students to build up the correct outlook
of the world, life and evaluation,
consistently improve their socialistic
consciousness so as to lay a solid
foundation for them to become a
generation having lofty ideas, moral
integrity, knowledge and culture
 
SOURCES
 Moral Development Theories turiel - Bing images
 Smetana-ZelazoHandbook2013.pdf
 Elliot Turiel (slideshare.net)
 https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-social-
sciences-magazines/moral-domain-theory