CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Carol Gilligan states that the post-conventional level of moral thinking can be dealt based on the two types of thinking. Gilligan’s theory is based on the two main ideas, the care-based morality (usually found in women) and the justice-based morality (usually found in men).

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -An ethics of care directs our attention to the need for responsiveness in relationships (paying attention, listening, responding) and to the costs of losing connection with oneself or with others. Its logic is inductive, contextual, psychological, rather than deductive or mathematical.

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.