The Emotional Turn:Breakthroughs and Challenges in School Moral Education from the Perspective of Moral Neuroscience
Since the Enlightenment,rationalism has gradually become the dominant paradigm of school moral education. While promoting the development of students' moral cognition and moral reasoning,the rationalist paradigm neglects and denies students' emotions and feelings,resulting in the unintended consequence of low effectiveness and even anti-moral education in schools. Since the new century,the breakthrough research of moral neuroscience on the role of emotions in moral judgment has led to an emotional turn in the fields of moral psychology and moral education. Under the background of the emotional turn,school moral education should comprehensively understand the roles of moral cognition and moral emotions in moral judgment,emphasize the key role and positive social function of moral emotions on students' moral development based on the research results of moral neuroscience and other fields,and face up to the challenges that the emotional shift may bring to school moral education. Schools have to improve students'social-emotional competence and be wary of ma-nipulation of moral emotions;individuals must use cognitive reasoning to mitigate the negative effects of moral emotions;and corresponding moral emotions need to be shaped through repeated moral practices in order to face new moral issues arising from social transformation and development.
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