Family Education Modernization And Development Started

This dissertation studies the theory development, the status of implementation and the historical evolution of the family education’s modernization in the Republic of China. Some issues are the main subjects that this dissertation tries to narrate and research, such as the historical background and motive factors of the evolution, the change and construction of the family education theory, the conflict and change of the family education practice, the change of the relation between the family education and the external social factors. On this basis, this dissertation tries to put the historical process of the Republic of China’s family education’s evolution into the historical prospect of the whole social culture change. It explains the close relation between the process and the constriction of democratic nation-state, and also explains the relation between the process and women’s education. The research on these issues is an effective way to study the macro social modernization in the period of the Republic of China from the perspective of family education. And it will not only advance the construction of the discipline of family education history, but also play an important role in guiding the process of the development of family education practice in the current social transformation period.The historical prelude and social background of the change of family education in the period of Republic of China were quite complex and diverse. The change was stimulated and made by many factors related with each other. The modern evolution of the relationship, structure which happened in the family field from the modern period, promoted family education to adapt to the need of the development of a new family. The women’s and children’s social status and family status had got a rise since the modern period, and this rise became an important power which could push family education into a democratic, equal, scientific development. Family education in this period started its modernization by the stimulation of the three main causes.The reformation and construction of family education theory was the main performance of the modern evolution of the Republic of China’s family education. On the basis of in-depth understanding of the western modern social culture, the modern intellectuals made family education become a powerful field of social transformation. They constructed family education theory according to the discipline system of modern science of education. In this period, various elements of education theory system showed the modern trend, such as the idea and the goal, the subjects and the content, the methods and the principles and so on. This dissertation systematically shows the whole appearance of the construction of family education theory in the Republic of China, according to this discipline system. And this dissertation also tries to outline the evolution context of the family education in the period of Republic of China in the text.The practice of family education also showed some changes under the guidance of the changing theory. The author uses the case study method in this part, and mainly studies the reality of the elite family education practice in the cities in the more developed regions as the research samples. The dissertation reflects and explains the process of the family education’s evolution from conflicts to fight, and then to fission in the games between the tradition and modernization. The author selects Mr. Ba Jin’s novel Home and Mr. Chen Heqin’s works Family Education as the two research samples:the former one can mainly reveal the deep-rooted disadvantages of the traditional family education and the awakening and struggle among the news youth; the later one can mainly show the reality of modern family education theory’s daily operation which developed gradually awards democracy, scientific trends. Of course, the two cases selected by the author can only represent the history reality of family education in the elite families in that society. They can’t completely represent the whole evolution of family education in the Republic of China, and the historical state of the family education practice in that period still needs a further exploration.The modern evolution of family education in the Republic of China was always controlled and promoted by the external social environment. The establishment of the modern school system and the promotion of the public education put forwards new requirements to the evolution of family education. And the school education and family education also began to communicate with each other in order to establish a good cooperation between schools and families. The national government issued the first regulations in order to implement family education in1938, and then issued a series of ways and rules. This official behavior promoted the legalization process of family education, and supplied legitimate basis for the family education’s modernization at the national level. The social research groups began to pay attention to family education, and they also promoted the publicity and popularization of modern family education. At the same time, the international participation and communication of family education also got development. This series of external factors all promoted the modern evolution of family education. This dissertation provides that the modern beginning and development history of family education was affected by the social macro historical evolution. Based on the analysis and show of its evolution history, the author mainly references and uses the democracy nationalism perspective and liberal feminism perspective to analyze and explain the evolution. During this period, the family education’s systematic, modern evolution involved the creation and protection of the new national consciousness, and it pointed to the historical process of the construction of democracy. The rise of women’s education which respected the equality between men and women provided a good historical context for the new mother’s creation in the new period. Only those women who had accepted modern education could become a good modern understanding wife and loving mother, and then they could make efforts for the modernization of family education from the reality level.Generally speaking, the process of family education’s modernization in the Republic of China, not only destroyed the traditional family education’s disadvantages and started our national family education’s democratization and scientific process, but also could set the tone for the development path and direction of modern family education and provide valuable historical experience.