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Title:: Fostering Virtue Through Education: The Anchor Point of the Practical Attributes of Pedagogy in the New Era

Keywords:: fostering virtue through education; pedagogy; practical attributes

Abstract:: Pedagogy fully embodies the practical attributes in both its historical origin of serving teacher education practice and its value origin of pursuing virtue. Analyzing the practical attributes of pedagogy by referring to the three main axes of professional discipline construction shows that the pedagogy in the new era, which is expected to return to fostering virtue through education, should expand the knowledge spectrum in this regard and create the pedagogical theory of socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era to foster virtue and cultivate talents. In terms of its professional mission, the pedagogy in the new era is to cultivate the subject to implement fostering virtue through education by focusing on cultivating teacher's PCK, practical research capability and public service consciousness. In terms of training research force, the discipline is expected to set examples for how to foster virtue through education by making breakthroughs in doing theoretical research, cultivating practical care, and developing a global vision.