Web Exercise #1: Cultural Influences on Moral Reasoning

LO 12.1 Discuss the development of moral reasoning from childhood through adulthood.

In this exercise, students should pick a country other than their own, research how children and adolescents are socialized, and develop a PowerPoint presentation to discuss the contextual and cultural influences on the development of moral reasoning in children and adolescents from that culture. Share your presentations with your classmates. Write responses to three of your classmates’ PowerPoint presentations. What did you like? What did you learn? What would you still like to know?

Web Exercise #2: Cultural Influences on Discipline

LO 12.3 Explain how children learn to engage in acceptable behavior.

In this exercise, students should pick a country other than their own, research how children and adolescents are disciplined, and develop a PowerPoint presentation to discuss the contextual and cultural influences on the strategies used by parents to discipline children and adolescents from that culture. Share your presentations with your classmates. Write responses to three of your classmates’ PowerPoint presentations. What did you like? What did you learn? What would you still like to know?

Web Exercise #3: The Most Beautiful Way to Stop a Bully

LO 12.4 Identify normative patterns of aggressive behavior and influences on atypical aggression during childhood and adolescence.

Chapter 12 discusses the characteristics of bullies and victims, how parental and school factors contribute to bullying, and outcomes of bullying. In this exercise, students will watch a TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LNPeGT9H-Y

1. Discuss the bullying that occurred.
2. How did he respond to the bullying?
3. Compare the speaker’s experience with the information on bullying in the textbook. Identify similarities and differences.
4. How can this information be used to help children?