Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Kew Campus) (Volume 5 page 41)
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Margaret Coady.
Prerequisite: CDS2A or approved equivalent.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week, or equivalent.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- demonstrate a knowledge of the views of those theorists who have had a major impact on the understanding of the moral development of young children;
- show an understanding of the bases of some influential moral theories;
- understand developmental trends and theoretical explanations of altruism and prosocial behaviour;
- understand the adult's role in and strategies for nurturing moral and prosocial development; and
- show a knowledge of recent debates and developments about moral education.
Content:
A study of the nature of moral development. Topics will include: analysis of a number of theories of the nature of morality; consequentialist and deontological justifications of morality; the relationship between morality and religion; the question of relativism; social learning and psychoanalytic theories of moral development; cognitive developmental theories on moral development (Piaget, Kohlberg and Gilligan); altruism and prosocial development in early childhood; gender difference in moral judgment and its relationship to justice and care theories of morality; implications of a range of theories for parent and teacher intervention.
Assessment:
Two 2500-word essays or equivalent tasks (50 per cent each).
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