CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning : preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. Each level has two sub-stages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kohlberg’s six stages were grouped into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. Following Piaget’s constructivist requirements for a stage model (see his theory of cognitive development), it is extremely rare to regress backward in stages.

Detailed explanation-3: -There were three levels of moral reasoning that encompassed the six stages. Like Piaget, subjects were unlikely to regress in their moral development, but instead, moved forward through the stages: pre-conventional, conventional, and finally post-conventional.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Kohlberg, however, these shifts occur in three stages rather than two. Because stage 4, subjects make moral decisions from the perspective of society as a whole, they think from a full-fledged member-of-society perspective (Colby and Kohlberg, 1983, p.