Existence of character education as one of the biggest contributors increatin a nationâs civilization is so absolute. Character education is so centralrole in helping to form the personality of students as agents of change. Theimportance of character education can not ignore the learnersâ psychologicalaspects who participated in determining the success of character education.Moral is one of the aspects . Many educators do not understand the veryclosed relationship between the moral and character. All this time educatorsonly actualize the character educational concept as a product that is ready tobe used by anyone, anytime and to any person without deeply understandingthe basic theory underlying the birth of the concept. Moreover, the learnersâmoral development stages participate in the process of achieving a big impactsuccess of character education. It is expected that educators could comprehendespecially the existence of moral and developmental aspects, so that throughthis understanding, they will get an effective character educational techniquesand have relevance to the learners developmental conditions. By understandingLawrence Kohlberg concept on moral developmental stages, educators areable to implement the three main components of character education thatincludes moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral behavior in proportion tothe learnersâ moral development.
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