Abstract:

Five-education integration is the core approach for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education in the new era and for deepening curriculum and teaching reform in basiceducation. Its practical effectiveness depends on the profound transformation of teachers’ professional competence. This study conducts in-depth interviews with four key groups, including college teachers, primary school teaching researchers, primary school principals, and primary school teachers, and constructs a bottom-up framework for primary school teachers’ competence in Five-Education Integration. The findings show that such competence is not a collection of isolated abilities but an ecosystem with a clear hierarchy and dynamic evolution. It takes educational philosophy as the value core, relies on a compound knowledge structure and diversified key abilities as dual support, and is sustained by continuous professional reflection and development as an endogenous renewal mechanism.

Key words: Five-Education Integration, primary school teachers, teacher competence, holistic education, educational philosophy