CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, a comprehensive stage theory of moral development based on Jean Piaget’s theory of moral judgment for children (1932) and developed by Lawrence Kohlberg in 1958.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kohlberg’s theory is said to be not only influenced by Piaget’s theory of moral autonomy, but it is often described as a further development of that theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -While pursuing his doctoral degree, Kohlberg became interested in Jean Piaget’s work on the moral development of children. According to Piaget, children naturally progress from a form of moral reasoning based on the consequences of an act (e.g., punishment) to one that takes the actor’s intentions into account.

Detailed explanation-4: -Just as Piaget believed that children’s cognitive development follows specific patterns, Kohlberg argued that we learn our moral values through active thinking and reasoning, and that moral development follows a series of stages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Piaget’s Theory of Moral Development By interviewing children, Piaget (1965) found that young children were focused on authority mandates and that with age, children become autonomous, evaluating actions from a set of independent principles of morality.