Moral development

Teaching ethics should be part of the job of all faculty members in all disciplines, writes C.K. Gunsalus.

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.

Observation 1: Social Development. Here is a picture of Kohlberg's 6 stages of moral development. Lilo is in the level 1: pre-conventional stage. She is very blinded by instant gratification and can even be considered selfish. She often does things with Stitch that can instantly give her some type of reward and make her happy because she does not understand the consequences. At one point, she decides to go out with Stitch and ends up destroying her house.

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.

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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development, similar to Piaget's Stages of Moral Development, look at how we develop mortality and ethics.

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.