moral and spiritual development

1. Moral
and
Spiritual
Development
(Middle Chidlhood)

3. Proponents:
•Lawrence
Kohlberg
•Jean Piaget
•Carol Gilligan

4. Piaget’s moral and
development theory
Piaget looked at the
children’s
understanding of rules
and consequences.

5. Two overlapping stages
1. Moral Realism-
is also known as objective morality
Emerge around age 5
Child perceives behavior to be
correct when it conforms to the
rules.

6. 2. Autonomous Morality-
Emerge between the age of 9-11
Transition from seeing the correct
behavior according to the rules.
It developed as a result of
cooperative peer relationship.

7. Kohlberg’s moral development
theory.
Conventional
• Good boy/girl orientation
(moral behavior helps others and
is social approved)
• Law-and-Order orientation
(moral behaviour is doing one’s
duty and showing respect for
authority)

8. Gillian's moral Development
theory
She argued that male
and female are often
socialized differently.

9. Stages of the Ethics of Care
1. Care-based morality
Acting justly means avoiding
violence and helping those in need.
More common in girls because of
their connection to their mother.
Girls are less inclined to worry
about issues of fairness.

10. Justice-based morality
• Acting justly means avoiding
inequality.
• More common in boys because of
their need to differentiate between
themselves and their mother

11. Because boys are separated from
their mother, boys become more
concerned with the concept of
inequality.

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