Changes of Heritage Education in China’s Primary School Moral Education Textbooks

To cite this article: LIU Limin. (2021). Changes of Heritage Education in China’s Primary School Moral Education Textbooks. Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 01:3, 114-123, DOI: 10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0103.012

To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0103.012

Abstract:  Heritage is the legacy inherited from past generations and serves as the main source of individual and national identity. Sustainable preservation of heritage mainly relies on heritage education. The subject of moral education plays a key role in heritage education in Chinese primary schools. This study investigates four sets of moral education textbooks since the 1980s to see how heritage education has been presented to primary school students in China. The results reveals that the active participation and innovation-oriented protection of heritage are being increasingly encouraged; the protection of tangible heritage and natural heritage is receiving much more attention; and the building-up of cultural confidence is turning into the focus of heritage education.

Keywords: heritage education; textbooks; changes; moral education

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