Established in 2002, the Seminar on Chinese Moral Education is co-organized by New Asia College and the Beijing Oriental Morality Institute. The Seminar aims to promote Chinese traditional virtues and moral education for China’s younger generations. Each summer, more than 50 primary and secondary school principals, teachers and education professionals from different parts of China will attend an 8-day programme exploring different topics on Chinese moral education at the College.
Seminar on Chinese Moral Education
Themes of past seminars
Year
Theme
2002 (1st)
Propriety (禮)
2003 (2nd)
Righteousness (義)
2004 (3rd)
Honor and Shame (廉恥)
2005 (4th)
Integrity (誠信)
2006 (5th)
Loyalty and Filial Piety (忠孝)
2007 (6th)
Harmony and Forgiveness (和諧與寬容)
2009 (7th)
Determination (立志)
2010 (8th)
Benevolence and Propriety (仁與禮)
2011 (9th)
Harmony (和)
2012 (10th)
The Golden Mean (中庸)
2013 (11th)
Self-cultivation (修身)
2014 (12th)
Virtue (德)
2015 (13th)
Good (善)
2016 (14th)
Intelligence (智)
2017 (15th)
"Cheng Ming" (誠明)
2018 (16th)
Forgiveness (恕)
2019 (17th)
Benevolence and Love (仁與愛)
2023 (18th)
Courage (勇)
2024 (19th)
Happiness( 樂 )
Voices of participating teachers
- Traditional Chinese virtue education has a clear theme, outstanding arguments, and expert guidance. Embracing the concepts and strategies of “happy” teaching and “happy” learning is conducive to cultivating moral character and cultivating people.
- Have a deeper understanding of Chinese traditional culture, and have new ideas in daily teaching.
- I have learned more about “happiness” and learned a lot about the running situation of primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong. I have also had some reflections on the moral education work of our school. Integrating traditional virtues into daily moral education teaching is a long-term task that requires perseverance.
- Have a deeper understanding of “happiness” in Confucianism and a new understanding of life’s “happiness”.
- Values education is worth learning and conveying virtues to children in simple and profound terms.
- This training, with the theme of “Happiness”, conducted an in-depth exploration of Confucius’ thoughts, which brought me a brand-new understanding and understanding of the cognitive aspects of education and the meaning of life.