Macphail's moral education model

Macphail's moral education model: understanding model.

The considerate moral education model was formed in the 1970s by the British school moral educator Peter? Macphail and his colleagues are co-founders. Different from the cognitive model that emphasizes the development of moral cognition, the understanding model puts the cultivation of moral emotion at the center.

Understand the basic information of the pattern:

This model assumes that getting along with people is the basic need of people, and meeting this need is the primary responsibility of education. It inspires students' interpersonal relationship and social consciousness with a series of interpersonal relationship and social situation problems, and guides students to learn to care and understand. The understanding mode is centered on the cultivation of moral emotion.

According to Macphail, the task of moral education should be based on the basic core of understanding. This basic core is naturally possessed by all people. "According to experience, people's similarities are profound and people's differences are superficial." For moral development, it is very important to give the hidden sensitive points an opportunity to express themselves.

Characteristics of understanding mode:

It is helpful for teachers to fully understand the possible reactions of students when solving specific interpersonal-social problems; It is helpful for teachers to fully understand the difficulties that students may encounter in solving specific interpersonal-social problems, so as to better help students learn to care; It provides a series of possible coping styles. Teachers can give lectures around the action lines proposed by everyone, and they can also guide students to play roles according to these action lines.

Moral Education Michael Phil and others have compiled a set of unique textbooks on interpersonal and social situations-Lifeline Series. This set of teaching materials is the pillar of implementing the understanding model. It consists of three parts, and gradually presents more and more complicated interpersonal relationships and social situations to students.