Educators should never indoctrinate students. As a prospective teacher, I would like to inculcate peace, love, tolerance, respect, responsibility, honesty and unity to my pupils. These values will help to create a better world where we will all live in harmony and unity.
Ethics is sinequanon in human life since it influences changes which is taking place in our modern society. In this new era, people get access to information quickly through technology improvement such as Wi-Fi. Nevertheless, this development brings along negative effects such as the degradation of values in our society. People are no longer concerned with their behaviours in society, they are carefree and motivated by material things. Teenagers do not want to visit their …show more content…
Examples of those psychologist are Jean Piaget, Havighurst, Kohlberg and Norman J Bull. Both Kohlberg and Jean Piaget theory is based on moral reasoning. Piaget advocates that knowledge is built and rebuilt when a person interact with their surroundings(environment). Piaget deprived this theory from children’s interactions in game playing. He discovered that moral development is a process which can be broken into two stages known as Heteronomous morality and autonomy morality. Heteronomous morality takes place in children aged 3 to 8 years and includes moral realism, egocentrism and absolutism.
Piaget states that younger children see morality in terms of rules, i.e. they are fixed and unalterable and this is known as absolutism. I think that lower primary children really think that rules are fixed. For example, If the teacher says that no one will be going to the toilet because we will break in 5 mins and the teacher allows a child who has some type of urinary disease, the rest of the students tend not to agree why this rule was not applied to …show more content…
They realized that rules can be changed as the need arises as now their cognitive capacities have developed. They also realize that rules are formed by mutual agreements for fairness and equity. What is bad is determined by the person’s intention and the person is punished due to its intention and not consequence of his act. Now, the child considers the perspective of other people. This is line with the second stage of Kohlberg theory- Individualism and Exchange. Kohlberg fifth stage known as Social Contract Orientation states that people at this stage there are different perspectives and rules can be broken if they are not consistent with one’s personal values and may be changed if they are no effective. This in fact shows that children have attain a level of autonomy in
Ethics is sinequanon in human life since it influences changes which is taking place in our modern society. In this new era, people get access to information quickly through technology improvement such as Wi-Fi. Nevertheless, this development brings along negative effects such as the degradation of values in our society. People are no longer concerned with their behaviours in society, they are carefree and motivated by material things. Teenagers do not want to visit their …show more content…
Examples of those psychologist are Jean Piaget, Havighurst, Kohlberg and Norman J Bull. Both Kohlberg and Jean Piaget theory is based on moral reasoning. Piaget advocates that knowledge is built and rebuilt when a person interact with their surroundings(environment). Piaget deprived this theory from children’s interactions in game playing. He discovered that moral development is a process which can be broken into two stages known as Heteronomous morality and autonomy morality. Heteronomous morality takes place in children aged 3 to 8 years and includes moral realism, egocentrism and absolutism.
Piaget states that younger children see morality in terms of rules, i.e. they are fixed and unalterable and this is known as absolutism. I think that lower primary children really think that rules are fixed. For example, If the teacher says that no one will be going to the toilet because we will break in 5 mins and the teacher allows a child who has some type of urinary disease, the rest of the students tend not to agree why this rule was not applied to …show more content…
They realized that rules can be changed as the need arises as now their cognitive capacities have developed. They also realize that rules are formed by mutual agreements for fairness and equity. What is bad is determined by the person’s intention and the person is punished due to its intention and not consequence of his act. Now, the child considers the perspective of other people. This is line with the second stage of Kohlberg theory- Individualism and Exchange. Kohlberg fifth stage known as Social Contract Orientation states that people at this stage there are different perspectives and rules can be broken if they are not consistent with one’s personal values and may be changed if they are no effective. This in fact shows that children have attain a level of autonomy in