Picture Book Research That Promotes Moral Judgment

In recent years,picture books are increasingly popular,which plays a great role in promoting children’s cognition,improving children’s skills and enriching children’s moral emotions.Picture book of children’s philosophy is a new form of moral education text under the gestation of The Times.In the process of reading philosophical picture books,children can develop their thinking,improve their moral judgment and promote their moral development.This paper is aimed to excavate specific factors affecting children’s moral judgment ability and deeply explore how to promote children’s moral judgment ability.On the basis of the above,picture book designers,parents and teachers are encouraged to take some constructive suggestions so as to promote the moral development of children.First of all,on the basis of theoretical analysis,this study has carried out a large number of literature analysis and define the moral judgment as well as some other basic concept of children’s moral judgment ability,which is going to clarify the factors that affect children’s moral judgment ability,improve the mark of moral judgment ability,and the relationship between moral judgment and moral behavior basic problems.Secondly,this study adopts text analysis method to conduct objective,systematic and qualitative research and analysis in the five dimensions of moral theme,protagonist’s social role,moral situation,moral problem,text and picture,which specifically expounds how Wisdom Book promotes the development of children’s moral judgment ability.According to the research,Children Philosophy Wisdom Books mainly promotes children’s moral judgment ability from five aspects.First,Books are full of moral themes which focus on the width and depth of moral issues.Second,the protagonist’s social role changes a lot,ranging from individuals,children,siblings,partners to social citizens.Third,the replacement of "You" moral situation,"Simple-Complex" moral situation and "Moral Conflict" moral situation are rich in the Books.Fourthly,the intensive training of dilemma moral problem,continuity moral problem and echelon moral problem are popular.Fifth,pictures and text play an important role in the Books.They work together to inspire,encourage and strengthen children’s moral judgment,enrich children’s moral cognition,cultivate children’s generative and pluralistic thinking mode,which finally promote children’s moral judgment.Based on the existing theoretical foundation and the systematic analysis of Books,this study puts forward some suggestions for picture book designers and parents and teachers,so as to provide reference for promoting children’s moral judgment ability in the process of reading picture books.