CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural bias: Individualist cultures emphasize personal rights, while collectivist cultures stress the importance of society and community. Eastern, collectivist cultures may have different moral outlooks that Kohlberg’s theory does not take into account.

Detailed explanation-2: -Additionally, Kohlberg’s theory does not consider relationships, affiliation or justice. As you might expect, his work has been criticized for using only White, males from the Midwestern United States and for his assertion that women seem to be deficient in their moral reasoning abilities when compared to men.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most famous opponent of Kohlberg is the feminist thinker Carol Gilligan who presents both philosophical and empirical counterclaims against Kohlberg’s cognitivistic theory of moral development.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget believed that age-related cognitive development is important for the development of moral reasoning, whereas Kohlberg de-emphasized this factor. Which phase is NOT one of Kohlberg’s stages of moral reasoning? upholding laws.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kohlberg proposed a theory without any empirical basis. Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning is development. Kohlberg did not account for cultural differences in moral reasoning of men and women. Kohlberg did not give clear cut stages of moral development.