CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Moral autonomy, usually traced back to Kant, is the capacity to deliberate and to give oneself the moral law, rather than merely heeding the injunctions of others. Personal autonomy is the capacity to decide for oneself and pursue a course of action in one’s life, often regardless of any particular moral content.

Detailed explanation-2: -Autonomous moral reasoning takes into account the intent of the person committing the action. The worse the person’s intentions were, the worse they should be punished for their actions. An example would be two teens who got into a car accident.

Detailed explanation-3: -Autonomy is the ability to know what morality requires of us, and functions not as freedom to pursue our ends, but as the power of an agent to act on objective and universally valid rules of conduct, certified by reason alone. Heteronomy is the condition of acting on desires, which are not legislated by reason.

Detailed explanation-4: -For young children justice is seen as in the nature of things. The guilty in their view are always punished (in the long run) and the natural world is like a policeman. Piaget (1932) described the morality described above as heteronomous morality.