TLECAD - Child and Adolescent Development

1. DOMAIN BASED MORAL
EDUCATION
Prepared by: Niña

2. He is currently a professor at
University of California Berkeley
Graduate School of Education.
Doctorate at Yale University in
Psychology.
Specialization / Interests
• Adolescence Cognitive Development
• Moral and Ethical Studies
• Social and Emotional Development

3.  Kohlberg’s theory:
preconventional,
conventional, and post
conventional
 Piaget’s theory is based on
the moral development
based on stages through life
 Elliot’s ideas branch off of
Kohlberg’s and Piaget’s
framework
• morality and social convention

4.  Turiel based his theory of moral
development off of psychologist Lawrence
Kohlberg’s framework of moral reasoning.
 Kholberg stated that, “moral judgments may
be defined as judgments of value, as social
judgments, and as judgments that oblige an
individual to take action.”
 Kohlberg’s theory: There are three types of
reasoners: preconventional, conventional,
and postconventional

5.  Kids associate behavior through
experiences; whether or not they
will be punished.
 Moral rules
• rules people follow because the decisions
that an individual makes affects others;
maintaining human rights
 Conventional rules
• Societal rule (standing in line, when to be
quiet)
 Cultures around the world hold
similar basic morals, but different

6. Base on universal features of human
moral understanding
Moral education should guide the
students to build up the correct outlook
of the world, life and evaluation,
consistently improve their socialistic
consciousness so as to lay a solid
foundation for them to become a rising
generation having lofty ideas, moral

7. Most domain theory
research didn’t take into
account the children’s
difficulty in evaluating
intentionality
Some cultures don’t
distinguish between
manners and morals

8.  http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/ETuriel/ETuriel.html
 http://www.livestrong.com/article/169968-moral-
development-in-childhood/
 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-
3045301623.html
 http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.dworin/theories_of_
moral_development
 http://www.edu.cn/20010101/21779.shtml