초등 도덕 교육 보완 방법으로서의 비판적 사고

Abstract

At present, elementary school moral education is composed of teaching items of virtue. Despite the need for such education, there is still room for rethinking moral education that is "biased" in items of virtue. For virtues are generally what students know, even if they do not learn at school, and virtue alone is limited in dealing with the subtle and complicated problems experienced in modern society. In order to do this, it is necessary to actively utilize thinking ability, and virtue education is not enough to cultivate such ability. As a countermeasure to this problem, I think critical and reflective thinking ability education is needed in elementary school, even if it is basic contents. This ability is not easily raised by simply taking a group activity in class or writing a diary. The critical and reflective thinking ability referred to here is the ability to use reflection ability to judge the basis of their own judgments or other people's judgments and to see how and where they are done and how they are wrong. This ability is important to lead a moral life. In the last part of the article, I tried to show in a few cases how the thinking ability specifically affects the moral life.