Dai Young Children's Social And Moral Development Reflects Its Cultural Analysis

From the history of education in China and foreign countries, we can see moral education is always the core of the theme of education. Moral was extended from philosophical speculations to cognitive psychology which provided theoretical basis for moral education as psychologists in west countries get down to studying moral. Moral judgment and moral reasoning has already been index to measure the moral development degree of the child and the youth. Education and Psychology researchers in China have done a lot of to introduce and study it. However, it may be not suitable for China educational practice and education problems for it was born in west countries whose culture is totally different from ours. More and more people pay close attention to the diversity of ideas and manners of people in different backgrounds with the prosperous of cross-cultural psychology. They summarize the characteristic of native culture according to the diversity, including moral psychology. It is the essence of moral study especially moral psychology study that discussing the moral development features of the child and the youth in China. China is a union of a multinational country. A peculiar characteristic minority, the Dai People, living in Yunnan province mainly, has their own language and text, literature and the belief of Theravada Buddhism in whole people. With the belief, the Dai people develop and perfect its moral system of secularization. In their acculturation, the Dai youth acquisition the social experience that must be inherited to survival and develop in their cultural background. It plays an important role in their moral judgment and moral development. Thus, it is in favor of understanding the moral development law of the Dai youth and how the culture affects the moral development of the youth that analyzing the special elements in moral cognitive and moral philosophy in the culture with the theory of western moral psychology and the measure technology. According to it, we can offer theory and reference methods to support the moral practice of the Dai and other peoples.In this paper, the author take the Sociomoral Reflection Measurement-Short Form, SRM-SF as main measuring tool which has been translated by author and other researchers, including examining the reliability and validity. We localize the Form and make it easy for students to answer. We make the test in a middle school and some primary schools for the Dai students in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province and in other schools in Qingdao for the Han students, Shandong province. We make the analysis of variance and test the difference of the age, people and sex. With the analysis and the interview to the teachers, students, parents and others of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and the participant observation in their real life, we get the conclusion that:(1) it is a main age differences and national difference in the score of SRM-SF;(2) The Sociomoral development of the youth has a strong relationship with their growing environment and culture inherited. The culture change makes the ability of moral judgment change. Sociomoral development level and speed of progress will be accelerated and slowed down under the influence of environment and education. The author analyzes and interprets the result through the ecological environment, social ethics, religious culture and educational instruction with the interview data and understanding of the Dai culture. At last, some targeting advices are proposed to the moral education of the Dai people targeted the current situation of the Dai youth's moral judgment with the abundant and education resources of high quality in the Dai cultural and some moral puzzled faced by the Dai society, especially the Da youth in impact globalization and modernization.