%0 Journal Article %T El desarrollo del sentido ¨¦tico en el ni£¿o y la ense£¿anza de la pediatr¨ªa %A Lejarraga %A Horacio %J Archivos argentinos de pediatr£¿-a %D 2008 %I Sociedad Argentina de Pediatria %X the child's ethical thinking is not installed in his mind as a single act, but as a consequence of an evolving process. kohlberg, based on piaget's studies, described three main developmental stages: preconventional, conventional and post conventional. however, vigostky and others emphasized the importance of the environment for the moral sculpture of children. three models can be recognised for teaching ethics in children: the deontological way, the descriptive way, and the only one morally acceptable: the one used by socrates, by which ethics becomes not merely an adjective, but an institutionalised social practice built on axiological basis. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0325-00752008000500009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en