S ummary .— Piaget has contrasted the 'morality of constraints' of early childhood, with its complete reliance upon external authority, and a rigid system of rules, with the 'morality of co‐operation' of later phases of development, in which there is a flexible interpretation of rules in ...
What are the things that young children, between the ages of two and four, actually do and express that have been interpreted by the early morality camp as indicating genuine moral capacities? The observations are grouped here in three categories: What toddlers actually know and understand; the ...
This chapter addresses theory and research on the development of morality from early childhood through adolescence. A structural-developmental-relational approach is presented proposing that children construct configurations of thinking about welfare, justice, and rights connected with emotions like affection,...
Children’s literature offers a wonderful mixture of magic and reality. This article aims to explore child development theories through the lens of "James and the Giant Peach."
Fairness is one of the most important foundations of morality and may have played a key role in the evolution of cooperation in humans beings. As an important type of fairness concern, inequity aversion is the preference for fairness and the resistance to inequitable outcomes. To examine the ea...
In addition to the cognitive underpinnings of moral development, recent studies have also focused on the biological origins of morality, and alternative theoretical approaches arguing that morality is innate have been proposed. The best known of these are the innate moral core theory and the two-...
We examined change over time in the relationship between moral identity and presence of meaning during early adulthood. Moral identity refers to a sense of morality and moral values that are central to one's identity. Presence of meaning refers to the belief that one's existence has meaning, ...
Early Childhood is the foundation of future life. Healthy development in the first few years of life provide building blocks for educational achievement, emotional stability and morality in individuals to make them responsible citizens, together building strong communities. From conception to 3 years of...
Current educational reforms in Africa aim to cultivate problem-solving and critical-thinking skills among early childhood learners through a democratic edu
Lawrence Kohlberg devised a theory of moral development which postulates that moral reasoning passes through six stages from early childhood to adulthood. Kohlberg’s stages are sorted into three discontinuous levels: preconventional morality, conventional morality, and post-conventional morality. Each stage...