EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moral Agency, Moral Disengagement, Lawrence Kohlberg
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* can we assist in children"s moral development. * moral development as socialisation, internalise social normalities. * children adopt ready made beliefs, parents modelling these social beliefs, social understanding. * acquired through understanding the social systems in which we live under. * not deemed as simply what is right or wrong, the reasoning, judgement, emotions we are making in making our moral judgements. what is the rationality from a moral perspective. * how do we as individuals make our moral judgements, whats the reasoning. * piaget- a cognitive perspective ( his studies began in moral development of children and adults) through gradual cognitive maturity and their social experiences/understandings therefore creating morality/ moral understanding. * ^ moral realism: concrete operational stage, rules as absolute and morality of cooperation: other people have other perspectives of value etc. we build the rules and also break these rules that we create. * stages of moral reasoning, tested as dilemmas (the heinz dilemma)