A Study On The Child-duty Education In China: From An Intergenerational Ethics Perspective

Intergenerational ethics was put forward to solve the problem of human relations between the intergenerational, which involves the family is to study the problem of relationship between parental and offspring. The change of family ethics, which is brought about by market economy and subsequent family pattern changes, make Confucian ethic with filial piety ethics as a representative lose the status and role. Many family function are shift into social responsibility totally or partly, such as child education and supporting the old. Modern children lack of filial piety concept and the sense of family responsibility, so that the contradictions in the family intergenerational are aggravating. There are contradictions between traditional filial piety and contemporary current individual moral values, which reason is the characteristic of unilateral and altruistic of filial piety, so the traditional filial piety education have some limitations to impart to children simply. The education of child-duty is as the new view of contemporary family education. There are two directions for us to study child-duty education starting from the intergenerational ethics:One is ethical relations between children and parents. The other is the influence of the children to their parents. On this basis, this paper is divided into four parts to discuss the education of child-duty:The first part is the interpretation of main problems. This paper mainly discusses the research purpose; explains the relevant concepts:child-duty education, child-duty roles, family intergenerational ethics, family generational relation, parenthood and filial piety. Discuss the development course of child-duty education and intergenerational ethics.The second part discuss the implication of intergenerational ethics in child-duty education. First, the author summarizes a reversal of that child-duty is a ethical norm; second, through the analysis of traditional filial piety ethics, it shows the ethical thoughts by child-duty education contains with, and demonstrates the ethics relations between the child-duty and filial piety; third, it expounds the intergenerational communication mode by a longitudinal and dynamic; fourth, through using ethics education methods to analyze the moral principle of child-duty education, it draws a conclusion from two aspects of altruism and ego discussed that the child-duty education accords with a moral principles of correct and comprehensive mutual benefit.The third part is to study the intergenerational ethical mission of child-duty education. On the one hand, the family intergenerational conflicts need child-duty education to solve;On the other hand, the goals of child-duty education is our pursuit of life intention, which is enhance all interests and happiness.The fourth part puts forward the implementation of the child-duty conception on the basis of the successful experience of reference child-duty education. With the contemporary children's life as a background, it analyzes this education advantages from four parts as the society, school, family and individual step by step. And then it puts forward the effective measures for child-duty education that it needs combined with education means.