Cognitive model (emphasizing that moral education lies in moral cognition)

1. Representative figures: Piaget and Kohlberg (connecting Piaget and Kohlberg's theory of moral development stages)

2. Main proposition: The most popular and dominant moral education theory in contemporary education theory. It assumes that people's moral judgment develops from low to high according to a certain stage and order, and the purpose of moral education is to promote the development of children's moral judgment and its relationship with behavior.

3. Features:

(1) Human nature is rational;

(2) We must attach importance to the interaction between individual cognitive development and social objects;

(3) Pay attention to the development process of individual moral cognitive ability.