Development of Gender, Moral Awareness and Self-Concept

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
6
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Understand differing explanations for the development of moral awareness.

Piaget (1965) How behaviours and experiences link to moral principles Kohlberg’s expansion of Piaget’s work on moral dilemmas (preconventional, conventional and postconventional) and the development of moral reasoning.

Eisenberg’s theory of prosocial judgement (1989) Gilligan’s Theory of moral development.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1

    Compare differing theories of the development of moral awareness.

2.

Understand differing explanations for the evolution of gender awareness.

Gender awareness Nature versus Nurture Debate Kohlberg - cognition (1966) Durkin -Gender stereotypes and the mass media (1985) Maccoby - Biological pre-programming (2000).

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1

    Compare differing theories of the evolution of gender awareness.

3.

Understand theories of the development of the self-concept in adolescence.

Self-Concept Maslow (1943, 1954) and Rogers (1951).

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1

    Explain how the self-concept develops in adolescence.

  • 3.2

    Explain problems that may arise during this time.