Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I. Moral Curriculum Based on Children Life: New Ideas and Directions -- Chapter 1. “Back to life”: The new transformation of moral curriculum in China -- Chapter 2. New directions in the moral education curriculum -- Part II: Exploring a Way to Make Textbook Close to Children -- Chapter 3. Narrative ethics and life events: An attempt to break the dilemma of textbook compilation -- Chapter 4. Connected to children: An exploration to organize children experiences in textbook -- Chapter 5. Imitating children’s life: How a moral education textbook becomes life-oriented -- Part III: Textbook, Teaching, and Teacher: Centred on moral learning -- Chapter 6. Compiling moral education textbook centred on moral learning -- Chapter 7. Teaching led by textbook: Direct moral instruction centred on moral learning -- Chapter 8. Teacher as moral learner: Reconstruction of moral teacher’s identity -- Part IV: Moral and Legal Curriculum Construction from the Perspective of Integrated Curriculum -- Chapter 9. Legal education in moral curriculum in China -- Chapter 10. Integration of moral education and legal education and its limits -- Chapter 11. Children-based education of Chinese traditional culture and moral education.

This book shares with English readers Chinese theoretical and practical explorations of moral education curriculum for primary schools within the basic education curriculum reform project since 2001.The book expounds this moral education curriculum reform and focuses on three main ideas: The curriculum’s aim is to enrich children’s experiences and reflect their own lives; the curriculum’s content is originated from children’s lives; the curriculum’s structure is developed from children’s learning approach in their morality and social study. In this book, light is also shed on how to construct moral education textbooks, direct moral instruction, and moral teacher identity in the perspective of moral learning; how to knit law education and Chinese traditional culture education in moral curriculum. This is the first comprehensive book focusing on Chinese moral education curriculum reform. It will appeal to researchers, research students, and writers of moral education textbooks. It is also suitable for teacher training programs to help future teachers learn about moral education curriculum and help them effectively design and organize it for children’s morality study.