Wa Infant Family Education, Traditional Research

The author tries to make a research into its family education traditions in infant and young children period on the basis of the available study works, hope to reveal the traditions' influence to children development.The dissertation contains five chapters:Introduction part includes reasons for the research, literature review, core concepts, theoretical foundation, research methods and significance, and an overview of Wa minority.Chapter one discusses traditional marriage, family system and child nurturance, trying to find the connection between them.Chapter two analyzes traditional principle of family education, exploring the necessity of family education, the target of family education, the awareness of children's gender and quality.Chapter three introduces traditional fetus nurturance, such as mother's diet, words, deeds to analyze the advantages and disadvantages to infant's physical and mental development.Chapter four mainly discusses traditional infants and young children's family nurturance, such as mother-tongue teaching, living and production skill teaching in games, ethics teaching, and so on.At last, the author points out the enlightenment in the conclusion. First, the principle combining teaching with love deserves learning. Second, the method of example education is worthy of promotion. Third, traditional family education can provide some materials for the development of school-based curriculum in modern school education.