Kohlberg's Timeline

By jailynn

  • Date of birth

  • Kohlberg enters The University of Chicago and completes his bachelor’s degree in Psychology in one year

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  • Kohlberg begins his doctoral work at The University of Chicago

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  • Kohlberg completes his doctoral dissertation research on the moral development of children, and proposes his six stages

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  • Kohlberg teaches at his alma mater, The University of Chicago

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  • Kohlberg found professional fame and was recruited by Harvard University, where he began teaching education and social psychology and expanded his professional research related to moral development

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  • In 1968, following his marriage and the birth of two children, Kohlberg accepted a position at Harvard University, where he taught both education and social psychology, a true melding of his interests in psychology, moral development, and social justice.

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  • Influenced by the kibbutz in Israel, Kohlberg returns to The United States and founds several “just communities”, his first being The Cluster School

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  • While conducting cross-cultural work in Belize, Kohlberg contracts a tropical disease that will plague him physically and mentally for the next sixteen years

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  • On leave from a Massachusetts hospital where he is seeking treatment for the above illness, Kohlberg commits suicide by drowning himself in Boston Harbor. He was 59 years old

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