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.

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.

Freud (1961) Believed that the mechanism for right and wrong within the individual is the superego, or conscience. He hypnotized that a child internalizes and adopts the moral standards and character or character traits of the model parent through the process of identification. The strength of the superego depends on the intensity of the child’s feeling of aggression or attachment toward the model parent rather than on the actual standards of the parent. Erikson (1964) Erikson’s theory on…

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