CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Gilligan proposed that women come to prioritize an “ethics of care” as their sense of morality evolves along with their sense of self while men prioritize an “ethics of justice."

Detailed explanation-2: -Carol Gilligan criticized Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory, stating that it was biased towards men. Gilligan stated that his theory was derived by only studying men and did not take into account a woman’s way of thinking or patterns of behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -In her own research, Gilligan found that women placed a stronger emphasis on caring in moral decision making. Kohlberg’s theory emphasizing justice does not allow for the role of caring in moral decision making, and this is why women often fail to reach Kohlberg’s “higher” stages of moral reasoning.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.