Week 7, Post 1

Reflecting on moral reasoning in chapter 13, children are practicing higher-order thinking, when they realize their actions are reflections of themselves.This moral development can help the child gain positive outlook about themselves, therefore help them develop a healthy self -concept (p.371). In addition, I think a large trait of the post conventional level of reasoning is selflessness. It's a large quality in decision making because one does not only care about the outcome benefiting themself, but they care about benefiting the people as a whole. 

Conventional moral reasoning is when a child observes what family and friends and doing, and tried to follow example. I think this level of reasoning is the most impressionable time for a child's moral development. They tend to practice what is taught, therefore their practices soon become their foundation of all moral reasoning. 

In chapter 12, I thought it was interesting that 

Piget's concrete preoperational thought is the process that children acquire the ability to productively think. 

They acquire ability to use seriation, the process of logical sequences. Seriation, and classification abilities allow for math skills to be acquired. Education is the process of developing potential skills and needed skills with guided participation, scaffolding, and utilizing the zone of proximal development.