【精品课件】Education儒家传统家教.ppt

【精品课件】Education儒家传统家教
Environmental Theories of Child Development
A pregnant woman seeks to shape the characte stand, walk, speak, bow, recite, and write.”
“The little ones are exhorted always to walk slowly with the arms held under the sleeves, with no waving of the arms or jumping.”
Training of Affective Control
Important aspect of socialization in traditional Chinese culture: to train a person to be bugou yanxiao不苟言笑, to never to reveal one’s thoughts and feelings.
To sum up: Chinese parents were pressured to instill solemnity and self-control early on in their children.
On Dongshi 懂事(understanding things)
The age at which a child is old enough to be punished is based on the assumed developmental stages of a person’s capacity for moral reasoning: called dongshi (understanding things)
“When the son reaches the age of dongshi (understanding/reason), the father must be serious and proper in his speech and way of living in order to teach his son.”
On Dongshi (understanding things)
In Sima Guang’s 司馬程(AD1019-86) Jia fan家訓 (Family Examples): “As soon as the child can eat by himself, he must be taught to eat with his right hand. Family discipline must begin as soon as the child can talk and begin to know things. By the age of six, teaching of numbers and names of things must begin.”
Cheng brothers 程氏兄弟(11 century Confucian scholars) said, “People in ancient times discipline their children as soon as they can eat and talk.”
On Dongshi (understanding things)
Filial devotion孝 must be taught to toddlers as soon as they can walk/talk. . to pay daily respect to grandparents and to address elderly properly.
“The family regulations are such that as soon as a child begins to understand, he is not only taught to obey, but also loses his freedom of action.”
Yan’s Family Teaching: even earlier teaching of infant– to be aware of adults’ emotional states, to distinguish pleasure from anger.
“To educate a daughter-in-law, one must begin