CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

KOHLBERG

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The Emperor had to consider whether the longevity pill should be given to his beloved Empress or his beloved Mother. This case shows Kohlberg’s stages of moral development____
A
Stage 3:norms-norma interpersonal
B
Stage 4: the morality of the social system
C
Stage 5: community rights and individual rights
D
Stage 6: universal ethical principles
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Stage 6: Universal ethical principle orientation According to Kohlberg, this is the highest stage of functioning. However, he claimed that some individuals will never reach this level. At this stage, the appropriate action is determined by one’s self-chosen ethical principles of conscience.

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: -Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation For instance, a person steals money from another person because he needs that money to buy food for his hungry children. In Kohlberg’s theory, the children tend to say that this action is morally right because of the serious need of the doer.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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