Transforming Life Stages and Special Needs Students

Special education students have a more difficult time transforming through the stages of the Life Span and Life Course Theories produced by Erik Erikson and Kohlberg, requiring extra help from teachers, parents, and volunteers who can provide the essential knowledge and positive examples. After knowing and understanding the theories produced by Kohlberg and Erikson researchers will have a better understanding of how humans develop and transform into new stages and what it takes for a person to move through stages in life. Through volunteering a researcher can learn first-hand how these theories apply in real life by spending time with special education students. Special needs students require help from teachers and guardians to aid in†¦show more content†¦Kohlberg stayed focused on moral development and followed his three stage categories: Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional. According to McDevitt and Ormrod (2007), the Preconvention stage consists of anyon e before the age nine or seen in preschool children, most elementary school students, some junior high school students, and a few high school students. During the Preconventional stage, children focus on only self-interest and obey rules to avoid punishment or gain a reward. In the Conventional stage it contains the adolescence age and morality begins to kick in. They care for others and realize the concept of rules and laws. The last stage in Kohlberg’s’ theory, Post conventional which means the child begins to understand the effects of their actions from ethical principles. Kohlberg believed that people progress in their moral reasoning through the series of stages and that a person could not skip stages or move back and forth between stages. 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