The Reconstruction of Educators’ Roles in Moral Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

There is an essential distinction between moral education and general knowledge education. The core of moral education is to address value propositions and cultivate sound moral personality, rather than the mere transmission of ethical knowledge. Mainstream global moral education practice has long been trapped in the inherent dilemma of intellectualization alienation and the disjunction between cognition and practice. The popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) has not only brought a more fundamental and subversive challenge to the traditional educator-centered authoritative paradigm of moral education, giving rise to unprecedented moral education risks, but also clearly delineated the irreplaceable value of educators through its insurmountable inherent boundaries in the transformation from cognition to practice, emotional connection, and value guidance. AI provides a historic opportunity for moral education reform: it frees up educators’ core energy, compels the transformation of their roles, and drives moral education to return to its essential nature of nurturing people.