Christian Family Education Ethics, From The Bible

With the development of education reform in recent years, the deepening of the moral decline in education has aroused great concern, how to make education out of the dilemma, improve the moral standards of education is an important issue to scholars. Educational Ethics as a new subject intersected by education and ethics provides the value analysis and behavioral guidance for education from the perspective of ethics, which studies the moral relations in the teaching process of school education, family education and social education, aims to enhance the ethical implication of education, promote education toward the direction of virtue and human nature.In the western countries, research on educational ethics started in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. In China, Educational Ethics as an independent discipline began in the late 80s of the 20th century. In the past 20 years research on Educational Ethics has grown considerably, the range of the study has been expanded to the field of family education and social education; the research object had a breakthrough from the original single Professional Ethics to the moral attributes of education itself, focused on the nature of education, the analysis of moral concepts, and the relationship between education and ethics; as for the research content, education purpose, education content, educational methods, educational system were all included in the view of Educational Ethics. Besides exploring the thought of western educational ethics has become an important field, now study all the issues in education activities based on ethical view has been a new field in China and abroad.Research on the ethical thought of family education is a new area of Educational Ethics, it is also an integral part of Educational Ethics. Now Chinese families attach great importance to the education of children, but care little for the moral sense of family education and lack of effective moral constraints. Family education, as the foundation of three the field of education has lost its status, its actual function of education significantly weakened, there exist the absence of morals and there are a variety of immoral phenomenon in educational object, educational content, educational methods, Therefore researching on family educational ethics become increasingly important, the morality construction of family education is an essential requirement to education modernization, it is also a inevitable requirement for Chinese morality construction.Chinese scholars always pay close attention to the positive factors of western ethical thought, under the background of calling for "universal ethics", the ethical thought like community, equality, harmony, fraternity etc in Christianity formed some blend and communication with Chinese traditional ethical thought, and it has been extending into each part of society. This thesis researches on the ethical thoughts of Christian family education based on Bible, it is an attempt on the study of western ethical thought. It is an ethical interpretation of the Christian family education, the purpose of this study is to explore the positive factors of Christian ethical thought in family education, contribute to our morality construction.This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part studies the ethical basis of the Christian family education. It makes a brief discussion about the verses of family education ethics in the Bible, and then viewing from the perspective of ethics, it studies the following issue:What's the origin of moral attribute of Christian family education? Who is the moral bearer and what's the moral goal of Christian family education? The second part mainly discusses the ideal model of Christian family education, which meets the moral requirements of Christian family education ethics. It includes: Christian family education goals,education content,education principles and methods. The third part is the focus of this thesis, studying "ethical relationship" in Christian family education. This part elaborates how the relationship of God and people shape the family education relationship, and what ethical requirement it expects. The forth part discusses the "moral practice" of Christian family education, namely, how the morality come true from "ideal" to "real", and explores the characteristics of Christian family education ethics.