CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stage 4 (Maintaining Social Order): This stage is focused on ensuring that social order is maintained. At this stage of moral development, people begin to consider society as a whole when making judgments. The focus is on maintaining law and order by following the rules, doing one’s duty, and respecting authority.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stage 4: Law and order orientation The individual now takes into consideration a larger perspective, that of societal laws. Moral decision making becomes more than consideration of close ties to others. The individual believes that rules and laws maintain social order that is worth preserving.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In Stage four, it is important to obey laws, dictums and social conventions because of their importance in maintaining a functioning society. Moral reasoning in stage four is thus beyond the need for individual approval exhibited in stage three; society must learn to transcend individual needs.