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 proposed that women come to prioritize an “ethics of care” as their sense of morality evolves along with their sense of self while men prioritize an “ethics of justice."

Detailed explanation-3: -Kohlberg’s theory canonized the justice perspective favored by males because he and most of his subjects were male. Gilligan’s research on women revealed, however, that a care perspective could also be a morally mature stage of moral reasoning, but one that is more favored by females.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gilligan’s work, which focuses on sex differences in moral reasoning, the perception of violence, the resolution of sexual dilemmas and abortion decisions, poses a major challenge to Kohlberg’s theory by introducing a feminist perspective of moral development.