Hi Class,
Please answer the following:
1. Among the theories of moral development, which one do you agree? Explain.
2. In your own words, define morality?
3. What is your basis of right and wrong?
4. How do you plan to teach morality among your students/children? Give example.
Doc Raqui
Please answer the following:
1. Among the theories of moral development, which one do you agree? Explain.
2. In your own words, define morality?
3. What is your basis of right and wrong?
4. How do you plan to teach morality among your students/children? Give example.
Doc Raqui
1. I think that all of the four theories are correct in one way or the other.
ReplyDeleteBut if I am to choose only one, I can associate most of my experience with the theory of Kohlberg. Initially I have learned what is right and what is wrong inside my own home. My parents words were the rules, they dictate what is good and what is bad. So me as a child, I am forced to follow the rules that they impose to avoid any punishment and get my reward. As I grow older till i reached me twenties, I tend to do good things to project an image of "a good boy". I wanted to impress others so I do what the society is telling me what is acceptable to do. Its like a feeling of I wanted to please every body to keep the image of a good boy. But now as a grown man in my middle age, I have thought and carefully reflected on so many things about life and have set a self determined sets of principles and morality which i believe is the best for me that will somehow confirm with the norm of society.
2. Morality for me is a set of acceptable way of thinking, action and saying of words that is acceptable to a society. This is like a rule to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony with all the people around us. A law that dictates orderliness and gives a sense of peace to one's self.
3. I base my thought regarding what is right and what is wrong initially by the sets of rules taught to me by my parents, the Roman Catholic Church, and lastly I will decide based on my owns conscience. This conscience is an inner voice which I think is based on the past experiences I had for the past years. And this may vary from time to time since some of the things I thought are wrong before, through reflection and perhaps new experiences will make my mind open to a new level of understanding. And this is also applicable to what I think is right.
4. I think I can teach morality by my way of life. I would show my student how a man of wisdom and high moral should life. And then I will transform this idea into verbal thing. I will discuss with them my point of view but with respect to their own point of view. Because I ought to respect my student's own sets of belief and value system.
1. Given the four theories of moral development, I strongly agree with Kohlgerg’s theory of moral development, in the pre-conventional level, stage 1 is obedience and punishment driven, when we were a child we got spanked by our parents if we did something wrong, so from there we realized we will be punished if we do bad things. Stage 2 is self-interest driven which means that I will do a certain thing if I will benefit from it. In the conventional level, our morality of actions is compared to the society’s views and expectations. And lastly, in the post-conventional level, the person lives by his/her own ethical principles with social mutuality and interests in the welfare of others.
ReplyDelete2. Morality is the determination between what is right and wrong, of what should be done and what should not be done. It is the basis of our actions and behaviors that are acceptable to the human law and in God’s eyes.
3. I grew up in a Catholic family, so for me distinguishing right from wrong is based from the teachings of the church, the words from the bible, and from the laws set by the government.
4. We, teachers, are of great influence to our students, in teaching morality we should serve as a role model and continually guide them in their moral growth and development. We must teach them how to be a decent human being. I would impart to them the virtues and values I have gained in life, the experiences I had, may it be success or failure, this will serve as a guide for them on what decisions to take in life.
1. I agree with the theory of Bandura which is behavioral modeling. It’s about the child observing the actions of the elders, parents and older siblings, whether it’s good or bad. Children now a day can easily imitate the actions that they see or observed.
ReplyDelete2. It has something to do with the set of standards which people follow. It is a basis of right and wrong in a certain context.
3. For me, it’s absolutely the Bible, Christian ethics, the Law of the Land, constitution of the country and set of norms in a certain community, in a certain context.
4. As a teacher of music, I can integrate morality among my students by sharing the verse in Colossians which says “Everything is created by God, for God.” Our talents or gifts are given by God because we are His workmanship. So we should render our talents only to God because it is for Him. As I teach the discipline in Music, I will also integrate the discipline needed by Filipino citizen to live harmoniously in our country.
1. After discussing the four theories of moral development, I’ll choose Kholgerg’s Theory of Moral Development which says that moral reasoning is practiced once an individual faces a certain dilemma and problem. Accordingly, there are three levels under this theory which includes the pre-conventional morality (level 1), conventional morality (level 2), and post-conventional morality (level 3).
ReplyDeleteLevel 1 or the Pre-conventional level focuses on the obedience and punishment orientation. At this level, an individual chooses to do good to avoid punishments. Relating this to real life, children tends to follow the instruction of older ones (parents or teachers) because they know that they will be punished if they will not.
The next level which is the Conventional level says that individuals begin to internalize the moral standards of adults or those they’ve been considering as role models. In this level, what they will do are those which are accepted by the people around them to gain approval from others.
Lastly, the Post-conventional Level which believes that individuals have different perspective and may disobey rules inconsistent with their principle. They will do what they think is right as long as they can provide their own reasons why they decided to do it.
2. Morality for me is the choice of doing between the right and wrong. This is like doing what is good and avoiding what is bad.
3. For me, my bases would be the Bible, standards set by my parents, Constitution and my own thinking and ideologies.
4. Obviously, we teachers being considered as the second parents of the youngs would greatly affect their moral development. According to the teachers preamble “Teachers are duly licensed professionals who possess dignity and reputation with high moral values as well as technical and professional competence. In the practice of their profession, they strictly adhere to, observe and practice this set of ethical and moral principles, standards and values.” This means, that we should not only have professionalism but also the moral values in teaching our learners. With this, we should serve as role model in portraying positive and negative values. We should practice decency and honesty so that they would adopt what they see from us.
1. Among the theories of Moral Development I agree more of Kohlberg’s. I believe that morality develops over time and that each one must undergo those stages. Each stage of development is a stepping stone towards a transcendent form of morality. As an adult, one must not only follow rules because of punishment (like a child), but rather because it is intrinsically good. Morality imposed by parents and society are good for children and young adult in order to form their moral thinking and behavior, and this is necessary in their formative stage. But later on as an adult, the person must go beyond the formative stage and must enter into a reflective stage where he/she examines and reflects what make a decision/action moral.
ReplyDelete2. Morality is one’s values, choices, and actions. It is being faithful to our core convictions as we make life choices and live them out. It is also living a life well (not materially) - a good life, being an upright person and of good character.
3. It is very tempting to answer immediately that my conscience would be the basis of what is right and wrong. Though it is a big factor in my actions and decisions but not entirely depends on it. How can I be sure that I made the right discernment if I would not consider the belief and practice of my family and of my Christian community? But at the end when in a dilemma the ultimate question is if I can stand on my decision in front of God.
4. Morality is a complex thing. Each individual and society can have each own set or definition of what is good or wrong. As a teacher the best way to teach children morality is to show them how to love and that is to forgive and be merciful. For instance, you caught the child cheating. As a teacher hate the act of the child but not the person, talk to the child but show a loving attitude to the person, forgive the person and be compassionate. Just think of how you can show love to the students and you can never go wrong. Remember, children learns more through actions than words.
1. I do agree with Lickona’s moral development in which teachers should help the students learn to build self-esteem, cooperative learning, moral reflection, and participatory decision making. As an educator, one must see to it that the students as an individual will develop through building self-esteem to students so that they have the concept of worth and value in the society in which their decisions are valuable to our society. Also, a student will also be a citizen of the country in which teachers should inculcate that there is no monopoly of truth. One can say that learning will be cooperative. In the classroom setting, one must encourage students to form groups through group work or pair work. Another, teachers should motivate students to do moral reflection because one should realize that morality is also based on self-reflection. Lastly, teachers must encourage students to participate in class in terms of decision making. According to Lickona, one must balance and develop all of these aspects of moral development and should not be taken piece by piece, but it should be taken as a whole.
ReplyDelete2. Morality is set of norms and proper conducts prescribed by the society in order for us to live harmoniously to one another. If there is no morality, the world will in chaos because there will be no parameters to limit our behavior and action in the society.
3. My basis of right and wrong came from parental upbringing, religious teachings, school’s mode of conduct, and the social norms that we have. Most importantly, my basis will be subjected also to moral reflection. In every action that I take, I decide by recalling and using what I have learned and what I realize will be the proper behavior.
4. I plan to teach morality by teaching not only through lecture type but also by application. Students should realize the importance of behaving properly in our society by preserving moral tenets that are universal. For this, I will be a good role model for them so that I will be a living testimony of moral values.
ReplyDelete1.After reviewing the theories that was discussed, I agree with the theory of Bandura which is Behavioral modeling. It focus on the child's observation on the people around him or her especially the elders wherein they try to mimic those behaviors that they usually observe even it is good or bad
ReplyDelete2.for me, MORALITY is simply the set of standards that the people should govern wherein doing the right thing and avoiding the wrong thing
3. For me, my basis for the right and wrong is the set of rules that was taught by my parents as well as the rules that was set by community that we need to govern
4. application is indeed important when it comes to teaching morality. we cannot just discuss that in a one day class discussion but you need to make sure that it will be practice in daily life situation and we can achieve that by setting ourselves as one of the good example to our students
1. I strongly agree with the moral development theory of Lawrence Kohlberg because it is consistent with other theories of personality development---from the psychodynamic to behavioral, humanistic to cognitive.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, in Level 1-1(Pre-conventional), obedience and punishment orientation, the child sees the parents or the caregivers as authority figures. The child is totally dependent on them that the child is cautious in defying authority. In the same vein, this is a period where the child wants to preserve his existence, this is the survival stage, so he would do what the authority wants. Otherwise, his existence might be threatened. Level 1-2 (Self-interest orientation) illustrates how the child is egocentric because this is the period that he asks ‘what’s in it for me’ which is typical of the child at this stage of development.
But once the child enters adolescence, he moves towards Level 2-1 (Conventional) Interpersonal accord and conformity. Based on Freud and Erikson, the adolescent stage is the period where the individual puts great consideration on peers—on societal norms. Hence, the adolescent conforms to social standards to gain interpersonal accord with peers. This level is also applied to adults. And as adolescent and adults reach the Level 2-2 Authority and social-order maintaining orientation, they know that they have a bigger role to play in society---to achieve peace and adhere to societal laws.
But sometimes, the individual reasoning may supersede societal laws, and this is where the individual reaches Level 3 (Post Conventional), social contract orientation where the individual sometimes defy societal norms thinking that the individual reasoning is far more reasonable. And this reasoning reaches the highest level which is Level 3-2 Universal ethical principles where principles become the utmost standards to make the final moral decision. This is the time that despite all the arguments have been presented, universal principles---like love, compassion, care---will prevail.
2. Morality is the ability to know the right from wrong. There will be decisions that we will face in life. And these decisions will put us in a dilemma—a tug of war of sort. Hence, during those challenging times, morality will spell the difference---morality will be the compass that will help in holding on to our decisions with the strongest of convictions.
3. My basis of right and wrong is based on the information that I have gathered through the years. As a child, I have learned from my parents and the community where I live. As I advanced in school---elementary, high school, college—I furthered my knowledge of right and wrong in the academic environment. After graduation, my professional life has enhanced my knowledge of right and wrong in the corporate world or industry. Nevertheless, through the years, my basis for right and wrong are the lessons of catechism I learned in my younger years---lessons of love—for the self, family, country and the world that we live in.
4. If I will teach morality in children, I will speak of instances that happen inside the classroom. I will present the problem or the case---and the students will share their inputs---and we shall make a decision in the end—this is inquiry based approach in learning, As for the examples, perhaps we can discuss simple situations to illustrate ethical principles---like falling in line to promote fairness and justice, picking up the pieces of paper to promote care, to help another sick classmate to promote love. Through these simple exercises, they will learn to concretize the ethical principles of justice, care and love.
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