Interpersonal Development And Kohlberg's Theory Of Moral Development

Introduction

This is an assignment based on the four major developmental theories by different theorists- the Freud theory of psychosexual development, Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and at last Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

The purpose of this assignment is to describe each of those four developmental theories and how I am going to practically apply those major theories in my real world teaching. In this assignment I would be focusing the benefits of applying those theories to my methodology in teaching and how am going to conduct the lessons in light of those theories.

We, as teachers we need to understand some of the important issues in developmental psychology as

At stage one, Obedience and Punishment children see rules as fixed and absolute. Obeying the rules is important because it is a means to avoid punishment. They believe that their teacher would punish them if they don’t obey the teacher.

In stage two, different individuals have different viewpoints for an example, they are stealing because they need money.

At stage three children build good interpersonal relationships to family. They do believe that people should live to the expectation of their family and build good behavior. They tend to show good behavior, by showing empathy to others and interpersonal feelings begins to develop

At stage four, they build the concern of maintain the social order of the society. Moreover, they give more emphasis on the society such as obeying and following rules and laws, performing their duties when making judgments.

When they arrive to stage five, children begin to account the differing values, opinions, and beliefs of other people. They are more concern about what makes a good a society such as spending time on society and considering the rights and values that a society ought to