TITLE:
A Study of Chen Chun’s Thoughts on Children’s Education
AUTHORS:
Luyao Ma
KEYWORDS:
Chen Chun, Children’s Education, Thoughts
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.10 No.8,
August
19,
2019
ABSTRACT: Chen Chun attaches great importance to children’s education, upholds the educational thoughtbyfocusing on ideals and beliefs,andinherits and develops Zhu Xi’s children’s education thought with educational practice. This kind of educational thought still has important enlightenment and reference significance today, and it is worth digging and inheriting in depth. This paper uses the method of literature research to sort out Chen Chun’s literatures on education. On this basis, it combs and summarizes Chen Chun’s educationalthoughts on children’s education from three dimensions: the function of children’s education, the content of children’s education and the means ofchildren’s education. Hoping this article can provide some references for the research of educational thoughts of Chen Chun and Neo-Confucianism scholars in the Song Dynasty.