Use of moral dilemmas in the development of the moral consciousness

This article reports the results of the research project titled "Effect of a pedagogic strategy based on the use of moral dilemmas in the development of the moral consciousness of high school students". Tilts study was developed in the Master's In Education program at the Universidad Santo Tomas (Colombia) as part of the macroproject "Effect of a pedagogic strategy based on the use of moral dilemmas in the a in the development of the moral consciousness in a group of university students". The project relics on the theoretical foundations posed by Laurence Kohlbergberg an his definitions concerning the six stages of moral development, grouped in three levels: pre-conventlonal, coventional and post-coventional. This study is framed within the positivist paradigm and follows a quantitative method with a quasi-experimental design. The instrument used to collect and analyze data is the Defining Issues Test (DIT) designed by James Rest. Results showed that a) the control group is located in the conventional stage of moral development, 0) the experimental group, shows an increasing tendency to move from inferior to superior stages, especially an increase in the average number Of students who are located in the post-conventional stage.