CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A moral dilemma, as developed by Kohlberg, is a fictional story where someone is faced with a situation in which they must make a difficult moral decision. The most notable is the Heinz dilemma, where a man has a wife who is on her deathbed and needs an expensive drug to survive that they cannot afford.

Detailed explanation-2: -A moral dilemma arises when: a moral agent holds moral principles entailing inconsistent actions, the moral principles do not override each other, and the moral agent cannot perform all the actions entailed by moral principles at the same time.

Detailed explanation-3: -At stage one, we make moral judgments based on obedience and punishment. Finn’s sense of good and bad is directly linked to whether he gets punished or not. Finn sees what is happening to his friend and wants to help. He doesn’t, however, because he is afraid the teacher may punish him if he gets caught fighting.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1960s, psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg built upon Piaget’s work with his own theory on the stages of moral development. Much of his reasoning was based on the Heinz dilemma, which explores how people justify and rationalize their actions when placed in similar moral quandaries.