文档介绍：Unit 14 Moral learning
Aims of the unit
In this unit we answer these questions:
1 What moral learning can be carried out in awanglish lessons?
2 How can we promote moral learning?
3 What are the roles of the teacher in moral learning?
4 What are the roles of the school in moral learning?
Moral learning and English
There is a Chinese saying that'Teachers are engineers of the soul'. This suggests that we are not just responsible for students' moral development. The word 'education' comes from the Latin verb educare, which means to'bring out'. In other words, teachers should try to bring out the full potential of their students as human beings, so they can live meaningful, fulfilling and responsible lives.
At first glance, English language teaching may not seem an important area for moral learning. It is a foreign language and is sometimes associated with social values that are not shared by Chinese people. On the other hand, English lessons can provide excellent opportunities for a focus on moral values
Because a large amount of teaching and learning involves reading passages and oral discussions-and ther is a lot of scope for teachers(and textbook writers) to select materials with strong moral fact, moral learning has always been stressed in all the syllabuses of English in the past 25 years and this is again strongly suggested in the Guidelines on Curriculum Reform of Basic Education(2001) in which it states that basic education should aim for better development of students, not only in knowledge, skills and abilities but also in values, attitudes, and emotions.
Moral values
What moral values should we promote in our teaching?In 1924, William (1924:229)wrote a list of values for American children. He suggested that morality involves:
control
health and hygiene
-reliance
of duty
work attitude
work
There are other valu