Abstract
The monograph Moral development of schoolers and preschoolers: Paradigmatic challenges according to Jean Piaget - presents detailed analysis of Piaget's research in the sphere of child's moral development. The text is divided in two parts.
In its first, interpretative part it offers insight into Piaget's theory of child's moral development, stressing the moral challenges which the child accepts during his development and which "move" him from egocentric heteronomy to decentered autonomy. The second, factual-accounting part mediates the grounding of Piaget's theory in empiric data.
Here all of the research situations from which Piaget's theory arises are offered to the reader for independent scrutiny. The book groups the developmental challenges linked with specific research situations into three domains of exercise of child's moral judgment: conflicts with authority, issues of punishment, institution of games organized as competition.
The book likewise analyses children's participation in these games and the reasons why Piaget considered these games as most inspiring for the development of child's moral judgment and how he studied this phenomenon.