Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)

1. Obedience and punishment orientation

2. Self-interest orientation

( What's in it for me?)

Level 2 (Conventional)

3. Interpersonal accord and conformity

( The good boy/good girl attitude)

4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation

( Law and order morality)

Level 3 (Post-Conventional)

5. Social contract orientation

6. Universal ethical principles

( Principled conscience)

Heinz's Dilemma

In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. One drug might save her, a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The druggist was charging $2000, ten times what the drug had cost him to make. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could get together only about half of what it should cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or to let him pay later. But the druggist said no. The husband got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

Should the husband have done that? Why?

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Kohlberg, Lawrence. Collected Papers on Moral Development and Moral Education. Cambridge: Moral Education and Research Foundation, Harvard University Education Foundation, 1973.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.

Kohlberg's stages of moral development. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved June 04, 2007, from Answers.com Web site: http://www.answers.com/topic/kohlberg-s-stages-of-moral-development

Robert Selman's Levels of Perspective Taking

Level 0: Egocentric Perspective Taking
Level 1: Subjective Perspective Taking
Level 2: Second-Person, Reciprocal Perspective Taking
Level 3: Third-Person, Mutual Perspective Taking
Level 4: Societal, Symbolic Perspective Taking

Marcia's Four Stages of Identity in Adolescence

James Marcia - is best known for his work in the social psychology of development, where he expanded on the Psychosocial Theory work of Erik Erikson.

* Identity Diffusion, the stage in which the young person is not currently going through a crisis and has not made a commitment
* Identity Foreclosure, the stage in which the young person has made a commitment without having gone through a crisis
* Identity Moratorium, the stage in which the young person is currently in a crisis but has not made a commitment
* Identity Achievement, the stage in which the person has gone through a crisis and has made a commitment to a certain value or role

James Marcia. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved June 04, 2007, from Answers.com Web site: http://www.answers.com/topic/james-marcia

Summary of Learning Theories

About Learning - A friendly overview of Learning Theories

This section examines 12 different theories on how people learn.

• Constructivism
• Behaviorism
• Piaget's Developmental Theory
• Neuroscience
• Brain-Based Learning
• Learning Styles
• Multiple Intelligences
• Right Brain/Left Brain Thinking
• Communities of Practice
• Control Theory
• Observational Learning
• Vygotsky and Social Cognition

Vygostky: Cultural-Historical Theory

PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN OVERVIEW

Jean Piaget is generally recognized as the preeminent developmental psychologist of the twentieth century. His work investigating the growth of intelligence from infancy through adolescence is basic to an understanding of child and cognitive psychology. Because he opened new fields of inquiry, Piaget had to create a new vocabulary for his discoveries; his concepts are not easily understood from reading about them. In this film Piaget’s student, Dr. David Elkind, introduces the research methods and terminology of Piaget’s theories with demonstrations and apt real-life examples enabling students to more easily understand the concepts involved. Archival materials also document the course of Piaget’s life. (1989 25 minutes) (This is a 4-minute sample) This film is part of the acclaimed Davidson Films, Inc. GIANTS series, which also includes films on the work and lives of Mary Ainsworth, Albert Bandura, John Dewey, Erik Erikson, Maria Montessori, B.F. Skinner and Lev Vygotsky.

I. Piagetian Conservation Task



II. Piagetian Concrete Operations - Deductive Reasoning



III. Piagetian Techniques in the Classroom:

Mathematics Construction

Purpose of this Blog

This blog serves as an open resource for students enrolled in EDU 241. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive outline of course materials and additional resources to make your learning experience as meaningful as possible.

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This blog will also serve as a MODEL for class assignments that will be related to creating your own shared and portfolio-based resources.

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Course Description

Diversity and Learners is focused on the subject of learners and the diversity of learning in school and classroom settings particularly in relation to the study of effective teaching.

A secondary focus will be on implications for other helping relationships involving coaching, counseling and parenting.

Over the course of the semester, we will consider the student as learner from the standpoint of different types of as well as different assumptions about learning. We will also examine learner differences and diversity of learning in relation to; developmental changes in childhood and adolescence, selected topics in classroom management and evaluation, and multicultural and special education issues.

Students are required to participate in a field experience. This course is designed for transfer from OCTC & MTC to USC- Columbia's College of Education - Department of Instruction Teacher Education.