Learning-Centered Moral Education in Textbooks and Teaching Practices

Abstract

The new moral education curriculum emphasizes the concept of “moral learning,” which is not only embodied in the new moral education textbook, Morality and Law, but also in the guidance offered to the teaching approach and teacher’s outlook in the new curriculum. This chapter presents the way in which learner-centered moral education was incorporated in the new textbooks, teaching materials, and teaching practices. The first section introduces how the textbooks were designed to facilitate moral learning. In the second section, we explore how the new moral education textbooks themselves are used to guide teachers in conducting teaching activities centered on the students’ moral learning. Finally, the third section discusses the possibility of redeveloping the identity of moral educators in accordance with learning-centered moral education.