Overview
- Elaborates a new moral education curriculum theory and its ethical foundation
- Presents a new approach to compile moral education textbooks
- Focuses on moral learning to reconstruct moral education textbooks, moral instruction, and moral teacher’s identity
- Introduces a new way to integrate law education and traditional culture education into moral education
Part of the book series: Curriculum Reform and School Innovation in China (CRSIC)
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About this book
This is the first comprehensive book focusing on Chinese moral education curriculum reform. It will appeal to researchers, research students, and writersof moral education textbooks. It is also suitable for teacher training programs to help future teachers learn about moral education curriculum and help them effectively design and organize it for children’s morality study.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Le Zhang is the associate professor of the Institute of Moral Education, Nanjing Normal University. He is theyouth academic backbones (Young and Middle-aged Outstanding Talents Program, 2018) and an outstanding young scholar (Qinglan Program, 2016) of Nanjing Normal University. In recent years, he focused on the spiritual crisis of modern people and the moral education curriculum in elementary school. He has published one monograph, Moral Education in Risk Society, and over 50 articles on moral education and moral education curriculum. He has been also involved in compiling two sets of moral education textbooks for elementary school and for junior high school, Morality and Law and Ideology and Moral Character.
Yan Tang is the lecturer of the Institute of Moral Education, Nanjing Normal University. Her research interests focus on basic moral education theory, moral education curriculum, and the exploration of moral education textbooks. She has published over 10 articles on moral education theory, moral education curriculum, the compiling approach of moral education textbook, and so on. She took part in compiling one set of moral education textbooks, Morality and Law, which are used by all the elementary schools in mainland of China. She has systematically enquired into how to compile moral education textbooks for children’s moral growth and has published the research in Chinese—Connected to Children:the research of elementary moral education textbooks Morality and Law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Explorations of Chinese Moral Education Curriculum and Textbooks
Book Subtitle: Children’s Life and Moral Learning
Authors: Desheng Gao, Le Zhang, Yan Tang
Series Title: Curriculum Reform and School Innovation in China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1937-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1936-6Published: 08 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1939-7Published: 09 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1937-3Published: 07 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7322
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7330
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 131
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Curriculum Studies, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology