Control And Enlighten

Elementary schooling is the key period for individual's moralcharacter development. Seizing this period means seizing the generation.Many countries have offered special courses of moral character such ascitizen, morality, society, ideology and moral character, trying to makethe future citizens accept and convert into the view of value from powergroups' identification and develop corresponding behavior habit as soonas possible.The most important media for the courses of moral character ofelementary school is its textbook, which carries the essential informationfor pupils to nurture certain civics dharma, and which is also the legal textof the government, and which is the crucial tool to control the direction ofpupils' morality development.The main function of the morality textbook of the elementary schoolis to have students accept the main trend of value. The meaning of socialcontrol definition in this thesis is that social control power make studentsaccept and convert into the main trend of value and gradually developcorresponding behavior habit by the media of curriculum and instructionetc, and then make students fellow social process of keeping its order.Based on above definition, social control is basic clue of the thesis,whichconcentrates on two core problems—what the content and the form ofthe morality textbook of the elementary school reflect social control byanalysis of the concreted version and comprehensive utilization ofrelative research achievement in Sociology and Psychology andLinguistics etc.Centricity of the two core problems, the basic frame of the thesis,based on analysis of the social control implication of the moralitytextbook of the elementary school and some foreign textbook, is to probeinto the same hue of social control of its content and form. So theconception of the thesis is that not only there are dominance and recessive social control in the morality textbook of the elementary school, but alsothere are forward and non-forward existed, which government doesn'twant. The carrier of the main trend of culture that the morality textbookof the elementary school, and its core content is about citizen education.The form of it emphasizes its value and makes students accept itefficiently. It is not full form but tools. There are many sort of power torestrict the birth of the morality textbook of the elementary school. Thepolitic and academic power are the main power among of them, And theformer is of decisive.According to the relative analysis frame, this thesis has arrangedfour chapters, approximately along the historic inspection- contentanalysis-form analysis longitudinal sequence, takes the morality textbookof the elementary school how manifest the society control as the masterline, and takes the society's control to the textbook of the elementaryschool as the auxiliary line, to advance the controllability research of themorality textbook of the elementary school.In chapter one, the paper discusses the research route of the textbookof elementary school, puts forward to the analyzing framework of itssociology research. All are based on reviewing the research actuality oftextbook and the reasonable functions of the morality textbook of theelementary school, in terms of the related opinions of knowledgesociology and so on. The research on morality textbook of the elementaryschool is thought to be significant on both theory and practice.In chapter two, the paper investigates the controlling situation of themorality textbook of the elementary school in different periods in China'shistory. Its scope consists of two main aspects concerned with the controlfrom the society and the control specialty of the morality textbook of theelementary school. The paper thinks there are different characters for thecontrol of the morality textbook of the elementary school at differentperiods. The paper combines the development of the morality textbook ofAmerican and Japanese elementary schools and then discusses the social controlling factor of the morality textbook of the elementary school.In chapter three, the paper reviews the content of the moralitytextbook of the elementary school from the angles of the style and extentof control. It thinks that the real content is made up of mainstream andsub-mainstream culture. And the redundant content is concluded asfollowings:The mainstream culture is mainly of positive control function. Whilethe core of mainstream of the morality textbook of the elementary schoollies in the content of citizen education. The content mainly involvespatriotism, basic behavior criterion, and the mainstream culture stands thecentral position of the morality textbook of the elementary school.Sub-culture stands the margin of the morality textbook of the elementaryschool. And it is a artful control. Furthermore, the sub-mainstream cultureof the morality textbook of the elementary school is the result ofreflection and even the object of animadvert. So it is also of some positiveinstructional effect.In chapter four, the paper analyses the discourse strategy and presentmethod of the morality textbook of the elementary school. It has madesome controlling effect for the morality textbook of the elementary schoolin the following aspects such as rhetoric, present method, validitydemonstration, activity setting, and example supply and so on. Thestrategy uses the idea of "accord with psychology" and has a good"capture power". Though; there is a dialogue formation worth payingattention to besides the active ones, which always brings negativecontrolling effect. There is much prejudice in the morality textbook of theelementary school.The paper mainly discusses the prejudice of cities andrural areas.