1. Summary
All the living creatures in the world need’s some guidance to survive, yes, in order to live life in our earth we need some sort of guidance. We may come across some people who lose their entire life without any proper guidance. The guidance is a important weapon which will enrich our life, so how we will get guidance or from whom we can get guidance. We can get guidance from some people, from our parents, and from our teachers. All of them are guided by some of their well wishers. Guidance will teach you many things. I was attracted by the philosopher Jean Piaget Kohlberg, who started his research from his graduation and expanded his theory throughout his life time He came up with an excellent idea on moral reasoning. According to kohlberg the human life is divided in to three levels
- Pre conventional
- Conventional
- Post conventional
Based on these three ideas the entire human life stands. In pre conventional level child may not know what is right or wrong? Instead the child or adult will be guided by some external forces. In conventional level a adult try to live morally based on the society. In post conventional level they also called as principle level, people live by their own ethical principles. Out of these levels people in post conventional level are consider as highly matured people. The people who live in post conventional level are considered to be a people of good standard.
2. Learning form the Theory
The Kholberg theory teaches us that we should judge people based on these three levels. The theory teaches how to teach people based on their ability. All people may not require same kind of guidance. Some people require well short of guidance, some people require only little guidance. We should teach people good moral principles based on their maturity level.
3. Impact on Teaching
The kohlberg theory teaches us that we should teach people based on their levels, whether he or she is in pre conventional or conventional or post conventional. The teaching is completely based on the maturity level of the people. In my institution I will be always called for lecture on moral development of people , the people may be from higher age group or lower its not matter but we should discuss with those kind of people and we should find in what level they are now whether pre conventional, conventional or post conventional level. I will spend more time in finding the conventional level of people. Then after based on their conventional level I will provide them guidance. In my view if we teach different moral principles for the people in different level is useless
The moral principle is those which will make the person as a morally responsible person. The teaching of good things to the people will make them a morally responsible person. The Kohlberg theory of moral development had bought great impact of teaching in my life. Not only the impact on me I will teaches good moral principle to all my well wishers
4. My Teaching based on this theory
I love teaching, and while preparing for lessons I will always relate some points with khobergs moral values, because moral will teach more things to the students than the lesson. One day I thought the lesson based on two friends, name Ram and Ganesh and their friendship. Ram is a highly knowledgeable guy where Ganesh is an illiterate. Ram understands Ganesh needs more guidance and he guided him how to achieve his goal with moral principles. In this story I related was in post conventional level and Ganesh was in pre conventional level.
I will relate any of my lessons with the moral principles of kohlberg. The kohlberg theory has given me great inpact on my lessons.
5. Conclusion
The Humans always need more guidance that any other creature in this world. The moral principles are the gifts to humans from which they can find what way they are currently in and in what way they have to live their life. A person who was in post conventional level are the highly matured persons, and they should teaches others to lead his or her life. The person who are not followed the moral principles are considered to be a worst creator in this world. One should guide others based on their maturity level, because maturity is very much important to lead one’s life in our earth.
There are lot of moral principles one should find which moral can give a great guidance to him first? And they have to follow that moral principle t live a happy life, Please always get some sort of guidance from the elders,Because elders are the most experienced people. The experience is need in all sorts of our life. ‘Be a good human being and live by moral principles’
References
1. Wikipedia (2013). Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development[online].Available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development#Pre-conventional
2. Pscology (2013). Kohlberg theory of moral development[online].Available. http://psychology.about.com/od/developmentalpsychology/a/kohlberg.htm
3. W.C. Crain. (1985).Theories of Development.Prentice-Hall. pp. 118-136.
