INTRODUCTION
Moral development
Moral development is a vast term catering not only the socio-cultural norms and values of character development and personal growth, but also includes the religious beliefs, laws and customs of societal patterns of a certain community. Parents at home and teachers in schools are mostly considered responsible for the positive and up-lifting moral development of an individual. Schools tend to educate individuals not only to earn their living later on in their lives, but also owe a compelling responsibility to train young minds in other spheres of spiritual and moral education.
Honesty, making and keeping commitments, trust-building, respecting the rights of others and fulfilling responsibilities of themselves, learning to maintain balance between …show more content…
Moral education in schools builds on the child’s early life-experiences at home and it has to do a lot with healthy parenting styles. Positive and healthy parent-child interactions foster positive ongoing training at home. Interactions with parents, siblings, other elders at home and/or secondary care-givers play a pivotal role in child’s moral development. There has to be an insistence from home that children should behave in an appropriate fashion towards teachers and towards their peers. Rules and regulations of the school tend to be followed by parents and students in accordance to the prospectus and school ethics. These rules provide an early opportunity for pupils to become aware of and accept that an effective and just society is based on the assumption that certain rules are acceptable to a wide range of individuals. Healthy individuals tend to learn by observing rules that there are consequences for themselves and others if violating the rules of the community. Gradually pupils internalize the fact why rules are important and they act upon them with more positive conviction, than simply operating through fear of
Moral development
Moral development is a vast term catering not only the socio-cultural norms and values of character development and personal growth, but also includes the religious beliefs, laws and customs of societal patterns of a certain community. Parents at home and teachers in schools are mostly considered responsible for the positive and up-lifting moral development of an individual. Schools tend to educate individuals not only to earn their living later on in their lives, but also owe a compelling responsibility to train young minds in other spheres of spiritual and moral education.
Honesty, making and keeping commitments, trust-building, respecting the rights of others and fulfilling responsibilities of themselves, learning to maintain balance between …show more content…
Moral education in schools builds on the child’s early life-experiences at home and it has to do a lot with healthy parenting styles. Positive and healthy parent-child interactions foster positive ongoing training at home. Interactions with parents, siblings, other elders at home and/or secondary care-givers play a pivotal role in child’s moral development. There has to be an insistence from home that children should behave in an appropriate fashion towards teachers and towards their peers. Rules and regulations of the school tend to be followed by parents and students in accordance to the prospectus and school ethics. These rules provide an early opportunity for pupils to become aware of and accept that an effective and just society is based on the assumption that certain rules are acceptable to a wide range of individuals. Healthy individuals tend to learn by observing rules that there are consequences for themselves and others if violating the rules of the community. Gradually pupils internalize the fact why rules are important and they act upon them with more positive conviction, than simply operating through fear of