A Study On Gratitude Education In Junior High School Chinese Textbooks Compiled By Ministry Of Education

Gratitude is an important part of Chinese traditional virtues.In junior high school Chinese textbooks,the cultivation of students’ gratitude emotion runs through everywhere.This paper deeply excavates the gratitude education resources and connotation in Chinese textbooks,discusses the specific implementation strategies of gratitude education,and summarizes the characteristics of gratitude education,aiming to better integrate gratitude education into the cultivation of current Chinese core elements,and train students to be responsible and grateful successors.In addition to the introduction,this paper is divided into four parts:The first part explores the connotation of gratitude and gratitude education.Based on the principle of "the exploring the origin of the universe and life",gratitude includes three dimensions: gratitude to parents,gratitude to the country and gratitude to nature.Correspondingly,gratitude education means that educators use certain education strategies to exert gratitude influence on the educated.It is of great significance to cultivate students’ quality,promote social harmony and inherit Chinese excellent traditional culture.The second part analyzes the principle of gratitude education in the current Chinese teaching.The works of gratitude education in the Chinese textbooks compiled by the Ministry of Education follow the principles of integrating instrumentality with humanity,comprehensiveness with practice,and scientificity with aesthetics.The third part analyzes the distribution and classification of gratitude education works in junior high school Chinese textbooks.According to the author’s statistics,there are 81 gratitude education works in the current junior high school Chinese textbooks compiled by the Ministry of Education,of which 35 are distributed in the seventh grade,26 in the eighth grade and 20 in the ninth grade.On this basis,different units and plates are arranged.Among these gratitude education works,there are 7 gratitude texts for parents,7 gratitude texts for human beings,29 gratitude texts for the motherland and 14 gratitude texts for nature.The fourth part discusses the implementation strategy of gratitude education.These implementation strategies include entering the country,arousing gratitude;theme activities,emotional gratitude;role play,experiencing gratitude;skillful homework,consolidating gratitude and so on.The fifth part is based on the content of gratitude education in the Chinese textbooks of junior middle school compiled by the department.These inspirations include teaching students gratitude in terms of text interpretation and practical actions,as well as persistently influencing students so as to improve their Chinese core literacy.