Chapter
6: Moral Development
In Chapter six and in reading about the
moral development, I thought about my own childhood and how this might relate
to me. As far as moral development occurs, it is basically an individual skill that is acquired through a natural occurance of growth and maturity. Morals for some people start very young and it is an automatic thing to know what right from wrong is, for others it takes a learning curve and many mistakes to fully comprehend the right and wrong thing to do. For myself, I would have to say that I always had a intuitive gear that told me when something was right or wrong and how to decipher between the two. I also have two sons and since my oldest was very young, it is harder for him to tell the difference and make the right choices. My younger son, on the other hand, has always had an innate ability to understand the difference and how to make the right choice. He is compassionate by nature and exceeds my expectations on what a six year old boy should be able to understand about life and choices.
The way I could use the information of
this chapter in the future for my own career as a teacher would be to not only
teach about morals and right and wrong, but also give examples and share
stories of when I didn’t make the choice I should have made. I believe that as
an adult, we have a lot more influence on a child’s behavior and moral
development than we give ourselves credit for. In that, I believe I could teach
some good life lessons on simple things that a child might use or even take
home. Any positive impact I could make on a child is a good day in my book.
Things I have learned from this chapter would be that all children have a sense or morality and an ability to make the right or wrong choices in everyday life. It is a lot of environment that helps teach them the differences between doing the right thing or the wrong thing and their parents and caregivers play a large role in helping them decide. Adults need to comprehend their role in every childs life that they are apart of and be careful in what decisions they make in front of them. As much as a moral compass is inside of you, if you are learning vicariously their the adults in your life on how to make smart choices, it will definitely play a large role in how you look at situations and decide for yourself what the right thing to do is. Although Piaget was an original theorists on moral development, I would have to say that I agree more with Kohlberg's stages of moral development. His ideas on how we develop a moral compass are something I can really relate to in my own life and watching my son's growth in people with a conscience.
Things I have learned from this chapter would be that all children have a sense or morality and an ability to make the right or wrong choices in everyday life. It is a lot of environment that helps teach them the differences between doing the right thing or the wrong thing and their parents and caregivers play a large role in helping them decide. Adults need to comprehend their role in every childs life that they are apart of and be careful in what decisions they make in front of them. As much as a moral compass is inside of you, if you are learning vicariously their the adults in your life on how to make smart choices, it will definitely play a large role in how you look at situations and decide for yourself what the right thing to do is. Although Piaget was an original theorists on moral development, I would have to say that I agree more with Kohlberg's stages of moral development. His ideas on how we develop a moral compass are something I can really relate to in my own life and watching my son's growth in people with a conscience.
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