CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Obedience and Punishment Orientation. The child/individual is good in order to avoid being punished. If a person is punished, they must have done wrong. Stage 2.

Detailed explanation-2: -Level 1 (Preconventional) Obedience and Punishment Orientation – at this stage of moral reasoning, the individual acts from a belief that if they do something wrong they will be punished, so that the best reason for avoiding doing wrong is to avoid punishment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stage 1: Obedience-and-punishment orientation: Stage 1 focuses on the child’s desire to obey rules and avoid being punished. For example, an action is perceived as morally wrong because the perpetrator is punished; the worse the punishment for the act is, the more “bad” the act is perceived to be.

Detailed explanation-4: -PUNISHMENT AND OBEDIENCE ORIENTATION: “When a child does an action, not because of their conscious decision about it, but simply to avoid punishment for not doing it, that is an example of punishment and obedience orientation."

Detailed explanation-5: -An example of obedience and punishment driven morality would be a child refusing to do something because it is wrong and that the consequences could result in punishment. For example, a child’s classmate tries to dare the child to skip school.