2021
DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2021.1897870
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Character strengths and virtues in Chinese moral education: evidence from ‘the Code’ and from primary and secondary schools

Abstract: This study bridges understandings of character strengths, based on McGrath and Walker's four-factor analysis of VIA-Youth, and a key text in current Chinese moral education: The Code for Primary and Secondary Schools. We utilise two research methods, textual analysis and survey questionnaires, to garner data theoretically and empirically. Our research has three aims. First, through analysing 'the Code' from a VIA-Youth perspective, we identify 30 implicit character strengths, of which 11 are nominally in commo… Show more

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“…Parents and society strengthen peer assistance in teaching and regularly hold seminars. Continuously enriching professional knowledge and updating the shortcomings of practical teaching, students can exert their subjective initiative in this process, collecting and organizing cases from channels such as television, newspapers, the internet, and students' daily lives, guiding them to integrate more deeply into rural society [13]. By combining their own theoretical learning and independent thinking, they can provide answers to the current problems in society, so that students can truly participate in social life and cultivate their civic participation literacy.…”
Section: Relying On the Education Community To Carry Out Quality Prac...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Parents and society strengthen peer assistance in teaching and regularly hold seminars. Continuously enriching professional knowledge and updating the shortcomings of practical teaching, students can exert their subjective initiative in this process, collecting and organizing cases from channels such as television, newspapers, the internet, and students' daily lives, guiding them to integrate more deeply into rural society [13]. By combining their own theoretical learning and independent thinking, they can provide answers to the current problems in society, so that students can truly participate in social life and cultivate their civic participation literacy.…”
Section: Relying On the Education Community To Carry Out Quality Prac...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another opinion according to Berkowitz and Bier in the writings of Jito Subiono (2013) reveals that character education is the creation of a school environment that helps learners in the development of ethics, responsibility through models and the teaching of good character through universal values. Character education can be interpreted as a deliberate effort to develop good character based on core values that are good for the individual and society (Huo, 2022).…”
Section: Character Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Character strengths are positive traits that appear in people’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors [ 1 ]. As such, character development has a central role in the development of individual students and society as a whole [ 2 ]. Peterson and Seligman [ 1 ] categorized 24 character strengths into six virtues (e.g., courage, humanity, justice, temperance, transcendence, and wisdom), and these have been widely applied in educational contexts.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%