Animals and Children's Cognitive Enlightenment:An Analysis of Animal Image Shaping in Chen Heqin's Fairy Tales
With the establishment of child-oriented view in modern times,educators and children writers began to translate and create fairy tales for children.Chen Heqin,as the representative of outstanding pre-school educators in this period,integrated his own educational philosophies into the creation of fairy tales,so that fairy tales could not only take into account the moral aesthetic and cognitive enlightenment,but also get rid of the utilitarian educational purpose,so that children could have a conscious sense of identity in the process of enjoying the fairy tales.In particular,the distinctive animal images have provided a free and childlike world for children's cognitive enlightenment and moral development.The study of animal images in Chen Heqin's fairy tales can provide the direction of learning and reference for how to better write and tell fairy tales for modern children at present time.