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Education for critical moralconsciousnessElena Mustakova-Possardt*State University of West Georgia, USAThis paper proposes a lifespan developmental model of critical moral consciousness and examinesits implications for Education in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Mature moralconsciousness, central to negotiating the challenges of the 21st century, is characterized by adeepening lifelong integration of moral motivation, agency and critical discernment. The paperdescribes the evolution of moral consciousness through three levels; pre- critical consciousness (pCC), transitional critical consciousness (tCC) and critical consciousness (CC) and eightchronologically ascending psychosocial themes. It focuses on the rst two periods andoperationalizes the role of Education in cultivating the four dimensions of moral motivation: amoral sense of identity, a sense of responsibility and agency, a deep sense of relatedness on all levelsof living and a sense of meaning and life purpose.

Education for critical moral consciousness 247. The nature and ontogenesis of critical moral consciousness The capacity to engage life fully and responsibly and to problematize every aspect of the natural, cultural and historic human reality is a whole-person phenomenon, a way

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