How to create a moral consciousness: Challenge for higher education

Abstract

This article is the result of a research based on theoretical principles of Piaget, Kohlberg and Freire, which prove that the personal morality development is a feasible and teleological task. On the other hand, empirical data collected from the Defining Issues Test of James Rest (DIT) shows that the Bogotá’s university students are in the conventional level. This fact challenges us to create a pedagogic proposal where the subject reaches a morality based on principles of social justice and recognition of the others, since the moral consciousness construction is an imperative for Colombian universities, which could be reduced to very technical curricula.