A Case Study On Parents' Moral Expectation Of Children

High moral values establishment and people cultivation is the country's basic education policy.Nowadays,society locates in an important stage of transformation development,children's moral disorder becomes more pivotal than ever,as well as the campus violence and provocation constantly hitting people.The voice of cultivating children's good moral literacy is higher than ever.As the important instructor of children,parents must shoulder the responsibility of cultivating children's moral literacy.The study analyzes from the parents' moral expectation of children with the purpose of providing helpful thinking for moral consensus of children construction and school's moral curriculum in new period.In order to analyzing the children' moral expectation from the view of parents with teacher identity,the study chose the qualitative research.Due to the question belonging to real one in the society,study applies case study as the main research method.Through interviewing 35 parents,we collected a plenty of materials.With applying the grounded theory and category analyses,the study would figure out the dimension,characters and pedagogy of good manner children.In the end,according to the native concept of parents,the study would construct the frame of children'moral literacy,as well as exploring effective education methods for moral curriculum.The study found that from parents' perspective,the frame of children' moral literacy including five dimensions — Children and society,children and others,children and self,children and nature,children and nation,specifically including children equipping society rule consciousness,shouldering society responsibility,obeying society customs,to be and to do,processing good manners and environmental awareness,sound in body and mind,caring animals,nation identity and international understanding.With analyzing the frame,we could find some characters,such as parents value more conventional good manners,preferring personal morals to public morals,paying attention to self-protection of children,taking the good manners gained at one unit and popularize it in the whole area.In addition,there are five moral parenting styles—domestic,authoritative,permissive,autocratic and mixed type,respectively applying opportunity education,teaching by personal examples as well as verbal instruction,commanding and punishing,governing by doing nothing,indulging and controlling to educate children and so on.The expectation of parents is a guidance for children moral development,as well as a new view for developing curriculum of moral education.Families-school connecting,live examples and dialogue with children enrich the curriculum of moral education.Educator pays more attention to evaluating individual on the whole,realizing the moral evaluation effectiveness.