Journal of Social Science and Human Research Studies (JSSHRS) · Research article · Open access
Constructing the Value of Care in Early Childhood Literature Education: The Conceptual Framework
Yi-Huang Shih
20 August 2026 · Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 1522-1525
DOI: 10.65150/EP-jsshrs/V2E8/2026-16
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The central concern of this paper is to explore how the value of care can be meaningfully integrated into early childhood literature education through appropriate pedagogical approaches, enabling young children to gradually internalize care as a meaningful value and translate it into concrete caring attitudes and practices. To this end, the paper proposes a conceptual framework: Literary Reading → Emotional Awareness → Understanding Others → Internalization of Caring Values → Caring Practice.
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- 20 August 2026
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- Vol. 2, Issue 8, pp. 1522-1525
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- 3051-3561 (online) · 3051-3553 (print)
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- EP Journals Group
Abstract
The central concern of this paper is to explore how the value of care can be meaningfully integrated into early childhood literature education through appropriate pedagogical approaches, enabling young children to gradually internalize care as a meaningful value and translate it into concrete caring attitudes and practices. To this end, the paper proposes a conceptual framework: Literary Reading → Emotional Awareness → Understanding Others → Internalization of Caring Values → Caring Practice. This framework conceptualizes early childhood literature as more than a medium for promoting language and cognitive development; rather, it positions literary experiences as a meaningful context for fostering emotional awareness, empathic understanding, moral and value development, and caring action. Through engagement with literary narratives, characters, and emotional experiences, young children are encouraged to recognize, interpret, and reflect upon emotions, while developing an understanding of the feelings, needs, and perspectives of others. Through this process, caring values can gradually become internalized and subsequently expressed through caring attitudes and practices in children’s everyday social interactions. Accordingly, early childhood literature education can serve not only as a means of supporting children’s linguistic and cognitive development but also as an important pedagogical context for cultivating their capacity to care for themselves, others, and the world around them.
Keywords: care, children’s literature, young children
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Yi-Huang Shih (2026). Constructing the Value of Care in Early Childhood Literature Education: The Conceptual Framework. Journal of Social Science and Human Research Studies, 2(8), 1522-1525. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jsshrs/V2E8/2026-16
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}Questions about this article
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Yi-Huang Shih.
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In Journal of Social Science and Human Research Studies, Volume 2, Issue 8, pages 1522-1525, published by EP Journals Group on 20 August 2026.
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10.65150/EP-jsshrs/V2E8/2026-16 (https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jsshrs/V2E8/2026-16).
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APA: Yi-Huang Shih (2026). Constructing the Value of Care in Early Childhood Literature Education: The Conceptual Framework. Journal of Social Science and Human Research Studies, 2(8), 1522-1525. https://doi.org/10.65150/EP-jsshrs/V2E8/2026-16
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