A study on the content of character education in China's textbooks：the civic education textbooks in junior high school

• Main Authors: Lee, Chia Shan, 李佳珊
• Other Authors: 吳榕峯
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58xvxx

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育研究所 === 100 === The study explores the content of character education in textbooks. The civic education textbooks of junior high school (from 7-9 grades) in China are regarded as object. First of all, the background and developing of the civic education textbooks could be understood through the reviewing of literatures. Secondly, different kind of character education contents that the citizens of China need could be analyzed. Thirdly, the numbers and distributions of character education contents and tactics we could be counted by the content analysis. The last but not the least, the results are analyzed and discussed by the literature reviewing. The study points out the appearing of the character education problems in China, and the trend of character education in countries. Then it exposes that government respects the quality of people, so they eager to implement the character education. The object of the study is the textbooks published by “people’s education press”, based on the course standard in 2003. The analytical table of contents is based on the Chinese traditional character education and the Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and other important policies. The analytical table of writing tactics is based on the theory of professionals. According to two analytical tables, we begin to the study. The conclusions of the study are as follow: 1.According to the different grades: the 7 grade focused on self character, the 8 grade focused on interpersonal character, the 9 grade focused on citizenship character. The environment character is dispersed in the textbook. 2.According to main categories : the most important item is citizenship character, the second one is self character, the third one is interpersonal character, the last one is environment character. 3.According to the secondary categories: their distributions aren’t averaged. Self character focused on self-concept, interpersonal character focused on respecting and tolerating, citizenship character focused on the conception of law and discipline, environment character focused on caring environment. 4.The writing of the textbooks are following the tips: from person to the government, and from easy to hard. 5.The writing tactics of the textbooks: the main tactics are ”asking questions” and ”giving an example”; the least tactics are “reasoning and induction” , ”comparing” and ” cause and effect”. The lower grade prefers using photos and the higher one prefers using explanation.