Adolescents Psychological Development : Rationality, Morality, and Identity

by Moshman, David

• ISBN13: 9780805828573
• ISBN10: 0805828575
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

This advanced text presents a constructivist approach to the development of rationality, morality, and identity in adolescence and early adulthood. It provides a review, long overdue in the developmental literature of post-Piagetian approaches to adolescent cognition, examining classic theories and current research in these three domains. In addition, it highlights the capacity of constructivist theorizing to address issues of human diversity and the implications of a constructivist perspective for secondary education. Accessible even to students with no background in psychology, this book will also be of interest to scholars who study the development of rationality, morality, and/or identity, especially those who are concerned with the interrelations among these domains and with theoretical questions concerning the nature of psychological development beyond childhood.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Development, Psychology, and Adolescence	1	(6)
The Nature of Development	1	(2)
Psychological Development	3	(2)
Adolescent Psychological Development	5	(2)
Piaget's Theory of Formal Operations	7	(12)
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development	8	(3)
Piaget's Theory of Formal Operations	11	(3)
Research on Formal Operations	14	(5)
The Nature of Rationality	19	(14)
Theories of Postformal Reasoning	19	(1)
Theories of Informal Reasoning	20	(4)
A Metacognitive Conception of Rationality	24	(3)
The Development of Epistemic Cognition	27	(2)
The Critical Spirit	29	(4)
The Construction of Rationality	33	(8)
The Reflective Construction of Metalogical Understanding	34	(4)
Reflection, Coordination, and Peer Interaction	38	(2)
Conclusion: From Rationality to Morality	40	(1)
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development	41	(10)
Female Circumcision: A Case Study in Culture and Morality	41	(1)
Moral Rationality	42	(2)
Piaget's Theory of Moral Development	44	(2)
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development	46	(3)
Conclusion	49	(2)
The Nature of Morality	51	(10)
Conceptions of the Moral Domain	51	(1)
Prosocial Conceptions of Morality as Care	52	(2)
Eudaimonist Conceptions of Morality as Virtue	54	(2)
Cultural Differences in Conceptions of the Moral Domain	56	(5)
The Construction of Morality	61	(6)
Moral Reasoning and Moral Development	61	(1)
A Pluralist Conception of Moral Development	62
Conclusion: Moral Rationality and Moral Identity	65nc	(67)
Erikson's Theory of Identity Formation	67	(10)
Erikson's Theory of Personality Development	68	(2)
Erikson's Theory of Adolescent Identity Formation	70	(1)
Marcia's Theory of Identity Formation	71	(6)
The Nature of Identity	77	(10)
Identity as a Theory of Oneself	77	(5)
Gender, Culture, and Identity	82	(3)
Domains of Identity	85	(2)
The Construction of Identity	87	(14)
Developmental Process	87	(2)
Cognition and Identity	89	(2)
Discovery vs. Creation	91	(2)
Ethnic Identity	93	(3)
Sexual Identity	96	(4)
Conclusion	100	(1)
Pluralist Rational Constructivism: A Metatheory of Psychological Development	101	(10)
Constructivism	101	(2)
Rational Constructivism	103	(1)
Pluralist Rational Constructivism	104	(5)
Conclusion	109	(2)
Rationality and Liberty in Secondary Education	111	(10)
Education for Rationality	112	(1)
The Role of Liberty in the Construction of Rationality	113	(1)
Intellectual Freedom in Secondary Education	114	(3)
Adolescents as Young Adults	117	(1)
Conclusion	118	(3)
References	121	(12)
Author Index	133	(4)
Subject Index	137