moral developments
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Moral Developments
Morality is becoming more and more interesting and popular topic for our time in the fields of psychology and education.There are many theoritian who studied this topic such as Jean Piaget, Kohlberg and Carol Gillin. Under the theories of those people I am going to analyse the morality.
Jean Piaget focused on the moral lives of children. He observed the way children play games to learn about children's thoughts about right and wrong. According to Piaget, all development occurs from action; "individuals construct and reconstruct their knowledge of the world as a result of interactions with the environment." While he was observing those, he saw the "morality" underlying in the development process..Jean Piaget outlines four stages of cognitive development: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, concrete operational, and formal Operational. These four stages have the following characteristics: invariant sequence, universal (not culturally specific), related to cognitive development, generalizable to other functions, stages are logically organized wholes, hierarchical nature of stage sequences (each successive stage incorporates elements of previous stages, but is more differentiated and integrated), stages represent qualitative differences inmodes of thinking, not merely quantitative differences. In his theory he suppose that people produce schemas by accommodating new infos..