A Study On The Cultivation Of Pupils' Moral Emotions In Course At The Primary Level

Moral emotions are both one of the conditions of the formation of the human moral structure and the major elements of the human moral structure. It's the medium to transfer the moral concept into moral behavior and the internal driving force to generate the will and acts. Since moral emotions play such a critical role in the promotion and regulation of moral behavior, the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions should be given special attention. The theme of this thesis is the cultivation of pupils' moral emotions. It mainly bases on the primary school curriculum'Morality and Society' course and ground on the characteristics of pupils'moral emotions. The thesis adapts to the actual level and rules of the development of pupils'moral emotions and focuses on the specific methods to cultivate the pupils'moral emotions in curriculum in order to optimize the teaching effects and the internalization of pupils'character. Therefore, we can enhance the effectiveness of moral education and strengthen the construction of the course.This thesis is divided into five parts. The first part is the literature review. By borrowing ideas from the relative researches of all periods and countries, the thesis exposits the position and significance of'moral emotions'for the formation of individual ethics and the moral education from both aspects of theoretical and practical values.The second part is mainly about the important role that moral emotions play in the formation of individual moral characters and also analyzes the current status of the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions. First, it summarizes the relationship between emotions and ethics and reviews the meaning, classification, characteristics of moral emotions. Secondly, it clarifies the fundamental position of moral emotions in the formation of pupils'individual moral characters from the following four aspects: learning of moral knowledge, self-discipline, more occurrence of individual moral behavior and the perfection of individual character. Finally, I preliminary analyze the content, methods, processes, aims and other aspects of the cultivation of moral emotions according to the current status of pupils'moral emotions.The third part is based on the primary school curriculum'Morality and Society' course. The curriculum aims are important parts of the aims of the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions. The curriculum content plays major role in the content of cultivation of pupils'moral emotions. The curriculum is a guarantee of the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions so that it is the main method of the cultivation of pupils' moral emotions.The fourth part is base on the theory of moral emotions combined with the author's teaching practice. It explores the teaching strategies for'Morality and Society'course. First it proposes the cultivation of moral emotions should be consistent with the characteristics of students'moral feelings. Secondly, it exploits how we can carry out the curriculum in consistent with the characteristics of students' moral feelings. Sequently, it mentions that moral education should follow the laws of the development of moral emotions:self-awareness as the growing point-emotional experience; to benefit the people as the developing point-emotion migration; to interact with each other--emotional interaction; to sublime feelings as the foothold point-emotional internalization. Finally, I analyzed every specific methods of the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions combined with my case studies:To their passion, the emotional migration; To moral emotions with more knowledge, reasonable land; To create a situation inspire the emotional experience; To your practice, achieved in the emotion; Sincerity had, emotion in interaction.The fifth part is from the teachers'perspective. It analyzes the relationship between the quality of teachers'moral emotions and the cultivation of pupils'moral emotions. It clarifies that the implementation of the primary school curriculum'Moral ity and Society' requires teachers to improve their own quality of moral emotions and enhance their own capacity to educate the pupils.In the context of curriculum reform, strengthen the construction, the innovation of the research is as followed. First, it focuses on improving the effectiveness of primary school curriculum'Morality and Society'. Secondly, with moral sentiment of the development of the laws and moral sentiment, feeling the development of moral level of the differences in the character set up primary schools 'Morality and Society' course teaching students moral sentiment of specific methods and tactics. And it pays full attention to the how significant the cultivation of pupils'moral emotion is for the pupil's development and the effectiveness of teaching.