Moral development
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The conscience works by telling us how to discriminate between right and wrong. The conscience is said to develop around the age of 3 years.
Social-emotional learning programs need to be built on a moral foundation, suggests new research.
Freud (1961) Believed that the mechanism for right and wrong within the individual is the superego, or conscience. He hypnotized that a child internalizes and adopts the moral standards and character or character traits of the model parent through the process of identification. The strength of the superego depends on the intensity of the child’s feeling of aggression or attachment toward the model parent rather than on the actual standards of the parent. Erikson (1964) Erikson’s theory on…
Lawrence Kohlberg formulated a theory asserting that individuals progress through six distinct stages of moral reasoning from infancy to adulthood. According to Kohlberg, these stages are grouped into three separate levels known as preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional morality.
Moral Development Approach
As teachers, we’re constantly being told to implement 21st Century Skills and the "4Cs" (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity). However, beyond that, we frequently aren’t sure where to begin. I use Socratic Seminars in my 7th Grade classroom to accomplish these skills.
It can be tricky to master the balance of being kind to yourself whilst also being kind to others. So we've designed our products with just this in mind. To help kids learn self-reflection, to talk about their feelings whilst also learning to be resilient and confident.
Moral values are standards that help an individual choose between right and wrong or good and evil. This understanding helps make the right choices in life.
