Piaget described following three stages of moral development. The first stage is ‘heteronomous’ stage. This stage of moral development is the exposition of a child’s ‘egocentrism’. It means that the child gives vital importance to his own personality. He cannot identify any others opinion because he cannot understand any others point of view different from him. The second stage is ‘autonomous’ morality. In this stage, the child develops cognitive ability to understand others aspect also instead of egocentrism. He knows that other people also need favor as he wants for himself. He knows the importance of ‘mutuality’. The third stage is ‘immanent justice’. He demonstrated that immanent justice reasoning is relatively stable throughout early childhood. However, children during late childhood and adolescence abandon immanent justice reasoning and begin to engage in more scientific thinking. Piaget said that children’s moral development can be accelerated by ‘nurturing’ them in an atmosphere where they are presented with moral circumstances from simple to the
Piaget described following three stages of moral development. The first stage is ‘heteronomous’ stage. This stage of moral development is the exposition of a child’s ‘egocentrism’. It means that the child gives vital importance to his own personality. He cannot identify any others opinion because he cannot understand any others point of view different from him. The second stage is ‘autonomous’ morality. In this stage, the child develops cognitive ability to understand others aspect also instead of egocentrism. He knows that other people also need favor as he wants for himself. He knows the importance of ‘mutuality’. The third stage is ‘immanent justice’. He demonstrated that immanent justice reasoning is relatively stable throughout early childhood. However, children during late childhood and adolescence abandon immanent justice reasoning and begin to engage in more scientific thinking. Piaget said that children’s moral development can be accelerated by ‘nurturing’ them in an atmosphere where they are presented with moral circumstances from simple to the