Resources And Inspiration Of Propriety Education

The Chinese nation is well known as "a nation of etiquette", and propriety education plays a significant role in improving self-cultivation and maintaining social stability. Currently, the propriety education in China is still incomplete, so it is a must to arrange the Chinese traditional propriety education resources and foreign propriety education resources that are expected to be used as reference for current propriety education in China.In this paper, the propriety education is defined as "an education event that enables students to learn civilized norms about social life and to form healthy personality, and that teaches the students how to give respect to others, how to get along with others, and how to be a civilized, mannered and educated man" on the basis of researching the concept of propriety and propriety education. For the analysis on the Chinese traditional propriety education resources, this paper takes four traditional books of Confucianism-The Book of Rites, What Children Should Know, BaiLuDong Academy Reveals, Pupils'Rules and Principles, as the literature analysis objects, analyzes the education contents and methods of propriety education in the above four books, and reveals four features of the Chinese traditional propriety education resources:the propriety education is combined with daily life of the students, moral and emotional educations are introduced in the propriety education, the propriety education is conducted step by step according to the age and sex characteristics of the students, the propriety education is supported by music education. For foreign propriety education resources, the propriety educations of the United Kingdom, America, Japan and Singapore are analyzed, different propriety education features of the above four countries are drawn out:the propriety education of the United Kingdom emphasizes the theory and practice of gentleman education; the propriety education of America penetrates in citizenship education; the propriety education of Japan focuses on moral education but introduces propriety education in courses; and the propriety education of Singapore is conducted by means of constraints of law and discipline and norms.Currently, the propriety education in our country should use the experience of traditional China and foreign country for reference, develop Chinese nation's traditional virtues-"humanity" and "filial piety", according to the features of students' mind and body in different growing stages, the teaching should combine the propriety education and living practices. Permeate the moral and basic propriety into the students' mind by teaching, carry out societal movement to popularize moral. Combine the propriety education with norms, law and discipline, and enhance the consciousness of right and civil moral of students.