Definition of Moral development
Moral development is the way by which children polish their attitudes right way and their behavior with surrounding people, based on social and ethics, rules, and regulations.
Introduction
Moral development main focus is on the children; forming a perception of what is good and bad. Moral development also explains the difference between right and wrong, the teaching of good behaviors’. Moral development constitutes how people flourish in understanding moral concerns and in taking moral decisions. In early ages, children are more related to their own well-being when they take moral decisions. However by intermediate age (roughly 6 to 9 years of age), children start to nourish more sympathetic …show more content…
For example, they will decide that a certain behavior is wrong if it causes another person pain, even if authority figures tell them that the behavior is acceptable.
Help children understand the reason behind rules, especially rules relating to such moral concerns as justice, fairness, and other aspects of human welfare (e.g, sharing a box of crayons is preferable to pushing another child away from the art area). Discussing these contrasting behaviors with a young child, the focus must be on how what the child does affects someone else (e.g., sharing crayons makes a play partner happy while pushing the child away makes the other child sad). Such discussions foster empathy, higher levels of moral reasoning.
Discussions with children should take the form of “true dialogue” as described by Noddings (2002a). True dialogue occurs, Noddings says, when participants engage “in mutual exploration, a search for meaning, or the solution of some problem” (p. 287). In true dialogue, teacher’s melody giving all the right answers. They think about the child’s point of view and solicit to listen. Most effective discussions for promoting moral development occur between child and child versus child and adult (Nucci, …show more content…
Kohlberg says about this stage it’s having an individualistic morality. This is the reward and punishment stage and the students are self-centred. The technique will work when teachers use reward and punishment discipline. The students perform either they will receive reward for a good student or they behave well because they do not like what happens to them when they do not behave. At this stage students who functions need a self-confident teacher to perform well. There is a little sense of self-discipline at this stage and need the regular supervision. The logical result of this theory is the choice of teachers to be assigned in a specific