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: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethics of justice, also known as morality of justice, is the term used by Carol Gilligan in In a Different Voice to describe the ethics and moral reasoning common to men and preferred by Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.