Explorations of Chinese Moral Education Curriculum and Textbooks: Children's Life and Moral Learning

This book explores Chinese moral education curriculum for primary schools, focusing on enriching children's experiences, content, and structure. It also discusses constructing moral education textbooks, direct moral instruction, and teacher identity. It is the first comprehensive book on the subject and is suitable for researchers, students, and teachers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 131 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book offers English readers a comprehensive exploration of the Chinese theoretical and practical approaches to moral education curriculum within the framework of the basic education curriculum reform project since 2001. It delves into the moral education curriculum reform, emphasizing three central ideas:

- The primary objective of the curriculum is to enhance children's experiences and reflect their own lives.
- The curriculum's content is derived from children's experiences and daily lives.
- The curriculum's structure is developed based on children's learning approach in morality and social studies.

Furthermore, the book sheds light on the construction of moral education textbooks, effective moral instruction methods, and the identity of moral teachers in the context of moral learning. It also explores the integration of law education and Chinese traditional culture education into the moral curriculum.

As the first comprehensive book on Chinese moral education curriculum reform, this publication appeals to researchers, research students, and writers of moral education textbooks. It is also valuable for teacher training programs, as it helps future teachers gain knowledge about moral education curriculum and enables them to effectively design and organize it for children's morality study.

Weight: 238g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811619397
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021