CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Gilligan’s work on moral development outlines how a woman’s morality is influenced by relationships and how women form their moral and ethical foundation based on how their decisions will affect others. She believes that women tend to develop morality in stages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gilligan suggests that these findings reveal a gender bias, not that females are less mature than boys. Men and women follow different voices. Men tend to organize social relationships in a hierarchical order and subscribe to a morality of rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gilligan identified two moral voices that arise from two distinct developmental pathways. According to Gilligan, the male voice emphasizes independence (“separation”) and responsibility for oneself, whereas the female voice emphasizes interdependence (“connection”) and responsibility to others.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gilligan named her theory Ethics of Care because it is based on care-based morality, which states that people (predominately women) move through stages where they try to find a balance between caring for themselves and others.