Chen Heqin's Research On The Theory And Practice Of Children's Moral Education

Chen Heqin is an outstanding children’s educator and famous child psychologist in China.He went to the United States to study in the Tsinghua School in his early years and obtained a master’s degree in education from Columbia Normal University.He returned to China in 1919 and has served as a professor at the Nanjing Normal School and the Children’s Psychology at Southeast University.Since 1920,Chen Heqin has taken his eldest son,Chen Yiming,as a research object,and has conducted continuous observations and conducted tracking experiments.Chen Heqin is the earliest scholar in China to use science experiment method to study children,s education.It summarizes and puts forward the scientific concept of children and education.This paper attempts to study Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children’s moral education,in order to provide some reference for the innovation and development of current children’s moral education theory and practice.This article contains a total of five parts.The first part is the introduction,which includes the reasons for the topic selection,the significance of the research,therelated literature review at home and abroad,the research methods and the innovation of the topic.The second part is to study the emergence of Chen Heqin’s theory of moral education.This part mainly expounds the background of Chen Heqin’s theory of child moral education and analyzes the main source of Chen Heqin’s theory of child moral education.The third part analyzes the main content of Chen Heqin’s children’s moral education theory,and analyzes the content related to children’s moral education from three aspects:"living education" theory,early childhood family education theory,and preschool teacher’s moral cultivation theory.The fourth part combs the concrete practice of Chen Heqin’s child moral education.It mainly demonstrates Chen Heqin,s contribution to the practice of children’s moral education from three aspects:implementing localized child moral education experiment,strengthening localized child morality training and improving kindergarten management standards.The fifth part clarifies the relevant evaluation and practical enlightenment of Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children’s moral education.Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children,s moral education promoted the modernization of traditional Chinese children’s moral education theory and practice,promoted the scientificization of the practice methods of kindergarten moral education in China,and provided practical and feasible scientific methods for our children’s moral education.Based on Chen Heqin’s life and the background of the times,this paper starts from the social,economic,cultural and other social backgrounds of Chen Heqin’s life,explores the source of Chen Heqin’s thoughts,and understands the essence of Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children’s moral education in order to guide the development of modem children’s moral education.Although Chen Heqin does not have an independent article on child moral education,it emphasizes the importance of cultivating children’s moral quality all the time in the theoiy of "living education",family education theory and practice.Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children’s moral education are interrelated and interacting,and have unique charm.By reviewing and analyzing Chen Heqin’s theory and practice of children’s moral education,this paper tries to make a contribution to the reform of China’s early childhood education,the development of kindergarten teachers and the study of children’s moral education.