Abstract:

As a new development and form of teachers’ professional literacy in the digital era, teachers’ digital literacy is essential for promoting educational digital transformation through teacher workforce development, building a nation strong in education, and advancing the construction of a digital China. Emotion is a constitutive element of teachers’ digital literacy. It serves as a bridge for the deep integration of digital literacy and digital technology, responds to the symbiotic trend between technological civilization and emotional civilization in digital literacy, and reflects the educational orientation of mutual reinforcement between digital education and quality-oriented education. Enhancing teachers’ digital literacy requires attention not only to technological mechanisms but also to emotional mechanisms. Specifically, teachers’ digital awareness is guided by emotional understanding, their knowledge and skills in digital technology are driven by emotional regulation, their digital application is mediated by emotional identification, their digital social responsibility is grounded in emotional ethics, and their professional development is governed by emotional cultivation. Governments, society, schools, and other stakeholders should explore the prerequisite conditions that nurture teachers’ emotional mechanisms and construct emotional pathways for enhancing teachers’ digital literacy, thereby providing emotional empowerment for building a high-quality professional teacher workforce and improving the national strategic action for educational digitalization.

Key words: teachers’digital literacy, emotional mechanism, emotional pathways, emotional empowerment