| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 教育社會學研究所 === 101 === The traditional non-religious moral education methods form up most of our modern day moral education. Due to their dogmatic and informative nature, adaptive learning effects are limited.
This paper discusses the impact and effects of spirituality courses upon promoting basic moral qualities and its’ internalization and adaptive learning for elementary school students.
Using Christian children’s Sunday school as the research’s subject and example, the study focuses on the following three points and how they could supplement the deficits of a modern day moral education.
1. The use of spiritual stories and impacting experience as a guide to change the individual’s conception of the world.
2. Attaining strength through prayers and the journey of supporting specific religions.
3. The group dynamics and interaction between students in Sunday schools.
These three main interests were examined in parallel and practiced through spirally interlaid courses. It was expected that individual interests would interact and affect each other.The results showed that individual students adapted differently to basic moral qualities adapting spiritual courses. The results also showed the importance of parent-teacher communication and during the spiritual courses, it requires the guided to feel the trust and respect of the guider in order to achieve innate resonance and mental coherence.It could be devised from the results that religious education could validly change elementary school student’s basic moral qualities. Through religious education of a common belief, it is possible to improve family relationships and promote the implementation of “children’s life and death education” in elementary schools.It is vital that the teacher would fairly and objectively present most religion’s doctrines under liberal religious education. For a specific religious belief that belongs to missionary religious education, other than religious knowledge, the religious experience should be highly valued.Future prospect for Taiwan is to find the position of Taiwan’s religious education through the elementary curriculum. Through religious sentiments of love and mercy, it is hoped that students are guided towards virtuous morality.
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