英文摘要 |
The curriculum and instruction of moral exemplars have been used in educational practices for a long time; however, the discussion is often superficial or limited to a single approach. Educators also often mistakenly believe that presenting role models themselves will have a positive impact on learners, while ignoring the potential negative effects. These can include, for example, model learning becoming a means of indoctrination or deification in a closed society influenced by politics or other complicated factors. Even in an open society, because of the internet technology and the “post-truth” era, there are still many fans blindly chasing and crazily seeking to imitate idols. Therefore, this paper focuses on the multiple and in-depth inquiries of moral exemplars, and summarizes them into five approaches; that is, A. Bandura's social cognitive (learning) theory approach, L. Walker and other scholars' personality/character approach, L. Zagzebski's admiration and emotional approach, M. Croce’s unbinding the dynamic process of the emotional approach, as well as the thinking and judgment approach of H. Arendt's theory. Secondly, the author uses Kim Dae-Jung, former Korean President and the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2000, as an example to explore the feasibility of the aforementioned approaches. It reveals how to comprehensively apply the multiple-approach inquiries to educational practices, so as to provide implications on key concepts and important aspects for character and moral education. |