CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -He found that these reasons tended to change as the children got older. Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. Each level has two sub-stages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stage 4: Maintaining the Social Order Rules and regulations are to be followed and obeyed. In the above example, the man should not steal the medicine because it is against the law. Stage four shows the moral development of a person as a part of a whole society.

Detailed explanation-3: -At stage 5, in contrast, people are making more of an independent effort to think out what any society ought to value. They often reason, for example, that property has little meaning without life. They are trying to determine logically what a society ought to be like (Kohlberg, 1981, pp.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stage 2 (Individualism and Exchange): At the individualism and exchange stage of moral development, children account for individual points of view and judge actions based on how they serve individual needs.