Outlook On Children Hidden In Fairy Tales In The Contemporary Age In China

The outlook on children, which means the basic concept and view of people on children, is the fundamental proposition in research both on Child Education and Children's Literature. In this thesis, the researcher tries to find a new approach to the research on the outlook on children, by a dialogue between "Child Education" and "Children's Literature" . Qualitative-oriented , the author selected 17 pieces of fairy tales from those contemporary created ones as the analyzing texts, then employs the methods of detailed personal analyzing and interviewing to extract the outlook on children hidden in the fairy tales' themes and literary images. The research reveals that the outlook on children is mainly reflected in six aspects, which respectively are children's living condition and rights, children's psychological characteristics, childhood development and education, the relation between children and adults, the value of children, and the sexual dirrerence of children.According to the research finding, the outlook on children displayed in the 17 pieces fairy tales in contemporary age in china has its own stability despite the changing times, while on the other hand, evolved constantly with the lapse of time. The author argues that the stability can be explained by the features of the mother-and-son relationship in the Chinese traditional culture, and the strong social role sense and sexual sense as well. While the changes of social structures, the author believes, are responsible for the evolution of the outlook.The author further analyses that the evolving process of the outlook on children in the 17 pieces fairy tales in China is in consistent with that in the pedagogy. No matter in which field the outlook on children is, education, literature, or philosophy, religion, science, or art, it can not transcend the specific characteristics of the age and culture. The dialogue and communication between different disciplines may enrich people's cognition of the outlook on children in a certain degree.