Moral education in a Shanghai kindergarten—how do children perceive social values and norms?

Isabelle Périard, Junjie Liu*

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Abstract

Moral education is one of the main components in kindergarten and school teaching. This chapter tries to understand in which way moral concepts are transmitted to children, and how children actively internalize them. Methods of field observation and interview based on one specific picture book with children are combined to investigate the social values, norms, and rules expressed in the local kindergarten and to reveal children’s subjective construction of the social values and norms suggested by the educational context. From the picture book task, different characteristics of 4–6-year-old children’s interpreting the content and theme of the book can be carefully analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial ecology of a Chinese kindergarten
Subtitle of host publicationwhere culture grows
EditorsShuangshuang Xu, Giuseppina Marsico
Place of PublicationSwitzerland
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Chapter5
Pages35-59
Number of pages25
ISBN (Electronic)9783030597351
ISBN (Print)9783030597375, 9783030597344
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameCultural Psychology of Education
Volume12
ISSN (Print)2364-6780
ISSN (Electronic)2364-6799

Keywords

  • internalization
  • moral education
  • picture book interpretation
  • social values

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