Picture Books Stimulate the Sensory System, Allowing Emotions to be Seen, Heard, and Touched — A Comparative Perspective of Children’s Emotional Development between China and Foreign Countries
In recent years, picture books, as children’s books and supplementary teaching materials, haveattracted more and more attention from parents, teachers, writers, and illustration creators. This researchtakes “When Fear Knocks on the Door” as the lesson study case, presenting a deep interpretation of thevisual, auditory, and tactile experiences that teachers use picture books to promote children’s emotionalability. Researchers have found that China’s policies and curriculum for children’s emotional developmentare oriented towards children’s physical and mental health, while foreign theories and practices forchildren’s emotional development are oriented towards social emotions. Therefore, when designing mentalhealth education courses for primary and secondary school children or integrating interdisciplinarymental health education concepts, Chinese teachers need to base themselves on the national conditionsand identify the target positioning for the emotional development of children in our country.