Has Moral Reasoning Lead to Human Survival?

Psychology:

Is Moral Reasoning The Key To Survival?

Lawrence Kohlberg (1958, 1981, 1984) was an American Psychologist who put extensive work into understanding human morality, eventually developing the Theory of Moral Development. Kohlberg believed morality  shaped decision making. Additionally, he believed it was something that would develop with time from a person's volume of experiences, not age. Simply, the more experiences a person has had, leads to a more developed moral compass, which will impact how that person chooses to behave.

Kohlberg would categorize his ideas into 3 levels of moral development. Level 1 is commonly seen in children and adolescents, and primarily shows choices made to avoid punishment, pain, or because of individualistic reasons. Level 2 incorporates more understanding of close social structures. Choices are made with the interests of family, friends, or law and order. Level 3 shows more understanding of society as a whole. Choices are determined through a common balance between what is best for themselves, and what is best for others. It is level 3 moral development where we see the challenging of institutional ideas that are believed to go against societal principles.

it is here Eugene Mathes (2019) argues that Kohlberg's theory serves as the explanation to justify social evolution. Our experiences shape our decision making, and the decisions we make dictate how society evolves and survives. Read more here!

Education:

Anxiety Overload?

I know everyone, I know, another COVID-19 discussion. In the defense of myself and others trying to find practical solutions, it needs to be mentioned that putting together extensive research into a given subject takes significant, time, effort and resources to manufacture. I want to pride Simplified Newsletter on using only credible and valid information to shape it's stories, and because of that, do not be surprised if we bring up COVID-19 again in the future.

ON THAT NOTE,

A recent study published earlier this month researched over 135,000 teachers in both remote, and in-person capacities. The purpose was to asses COVID-19's effect on mental health in teachers. 

Evidence gathered from this study indicated higher numbers of anxiety symptoms were shown in teachers when compared a group of over 2.6 million people belonging to various other professions. Additionally, teachers who worked remotely showed significantly higher numbers in comparison to this group. As a part of this study, people's level anxiety symptoms, feelings of isolations, and depressive symptoms where measured, and teachers were found to express all three categories when compared to other professions.

This begs the question. What about teaching during COVID-19 specifically has created a environment such as this for teachers? Is it the students? The administration? Should we blame the state policies and guidelines? Do teachers feel undervalued or understaffed? Unfortunately, while this study provides a lot of insight into how COVID-19 has  impacted teachers, people are still left wondering what is next for education as we climb our way out. Read more here!

Finding The Sweet Spot

Many of us may already know that not having enough free time in our day could impact a our overall well-being. However, di you know a study was conducted at UCLA University that found a person's well-being does not improve beyond 2 hours of free time daily.  Furthermore, the study found that overall well-being actually decreases after 5 hours daily. 

Perhaps this is a personal curiosity as I am currently transitioning into a new career myself, and have found myself with much more extra time than I am typically used too. Not just in regards to my own sample size, but recently retired person's also could be impacted by this dilemma.  

Maybe these people should consider starting a newsletter broadcasting all of their interests about psychology and education?

Oh wait, that appears to taken already. ;)

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