What Fairy Tales Intend To "Tell"

As children's favorite types of literature, fairy tale carries a lot of information. What can fairy tales potentially teach children? What kind of educational knowledge imply in it? With these questions, this study collected a large number of fairy tale versions which kindergarten children are reading and teachers are using, and using hermeneutic methods reveal and interpretation the tacit education knowledge from fairy tales. The study found that the fairy tales deliberately fabricate facts in order to tell a reason to children, or ignore the natural knowledge to fabricate children's world, which departures from the spirit and essence of science education; fairy tales belittle the natural instincts of children and implied views that curiosity makes defeat and gift mean no importance; instruct the children's perception in a narrow moral hypocrisy of the moral education, and told the children that they can treat things unjustly, and some even claimed that honesty is to suffer and sympathetic to evil is not permitted, we can deal with bad people worse than them; some fairy tales respected a kind of education without children, they evaluated children by whether they concentrate on school, claim the concentration that is smart, concentration is a fool, emphasizing obedient means success. Accordingly, the author presents four shallow views on fairy tales and fairy education: firstly, let science turn back into fairy tales with facts. Secondly, respect children's nature, help them to learn about themselves correctly. Thirdly, let's concern about the public value of fairy tales. Fourthly, children are the existence of fairy tales, in the children's education there must be children.At last part of the thesis is recommends how to choose a fairy tales for teachers:Firstly, choose the fairy tales which have the value of dialogue. Secondly, choose the fairy tales there are children inside. Thirdly, choose those which take care of humanism.