The goal of this study is the analysis of judgments by children and adolescents with regard to inclusion and exclusion in its moral, personal, and social senses. Interviews were conducted with 96 Colombian children and adolescents of diverse social origins and of different age groups (5, 9, 13, and 17 years old). The interviews focused on three types of situations in which peers were excluded from group activities. The qualitative analyses show that children and adolescents gradually gain complexity in their descriptions of situations, and their judgments become more flexible, differentiated, and integrated. Different models of moral development are discussed, and in conclusion we propose that moral development can be best understood as a process of increasing complexity and of differentiation-integration of domains.
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