Analysis Of Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory On Moral Development

For this assignment, I will be using Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory on moral development to analyze my educational development as a student at Binghamton University. This theory was chosen because of the different moral development stages that occurs. The theory addresses three different stages with two sub-stages in each level. As such, each stage have two deciding factors of how a student’s development changes and evolve as they progress on. By using this theory, I hope to examine my own moral development from my freshman year as an undergraduate student, moving onward towards my final semesters here as a graduate student. In addition to exploring my years at Binghamton University, this reflection will examine whether this theory holds true

While this theory does explain my own development from the influence of the decisions made during my undergraduate studies, Stage 2 and Stage 5 allowed me to develop a better sense of myself and how my moral evolved. By applying my parents’ decision to my own goals and achievements, I learned from areas where it failed me before. I moved onward from the decisions created and identified my own aspects and beliefs from my parents’ morals. In return, I grew into a bigger aspect of myself and learned. As I reflect back on Kohlberg’s theory of moral development and my own personal cognitive development during my undergraduate years until today, I can say that there might be conflicting aspects that impacted my development and growth. In Stage 1, while it was easy for me to understand my parents’ decision, it failed to describe the conflicting decisions I had to make moving onward to Stage 2. While Stage 3 and Stage 5 were more easily acknowledged, I felt that the theory did not describe my development as a whole. There were certain parts of the theory that were accurate, Kohlberg’s theory allowed some room for error in being generalizable toward the student