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UCCA Beijing2015.10.31
Mercator Salon XXI: Family Upbringing
2015.10.31
15:00-17:00
As was the case in pre-industrial Europe, bringing up and educating children was primarily a task for the family in traditional China. Because the family was viewed as a model for the whole of society, it had a duty to impart social and moral values to children; intellectual and professional knowledge tended also to be passed on within the family.
Added to this was the fact that it became the rule for both parents to go out to work, which meant that grandparents assumed responsibility for bringing up children within the family, especially during early childhood, as indeed is still often the case to this day. The one-child policy resulted in the emotions and expectations not only of both parents but also of all four grandparents being concentrated on one single child, which led to a unique blend of an extremely sheltered upbringing and extreme pressure to achieve within the family.
Unlike the quality of the state education system and its effects on children and young people, the role and situation of upbringing within the family are virtually never the subject of public or academic debate. It is no coincidence that the discussion of "tiger mums" by no means arose in China itself. The aspect of this most commonly raised is that the all-consuming parental concern about the child's educational career frequently leads to tensions within the family which can result in the parents divorcing and pose an additional psychological burden on the children.
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Speakers
Dr. Manfred Prenzel (Susanne Klatten Endowed Chair of Educational Research at the Technische Universität München, Chair of the German Council of Science and Humanities Wissenschaftsrat)
Manfred Prenzel, Ph.D., holds the Susanne Klatten Endowed Chair of Educational Research at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) in Munich, Germany. The main topics of his research relate to issues of learning and teaching in different domains (science, mathematics, medicine, economics), especially on motivation/ interest, conceptual change, and patterns of teaching and learning.
He has been the National Project Manager for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, 2006, 2012 and 2015 in Germany, and a member of the International PISA Science Expert Group from its conception.
In 2014 Manfred Prenzel was elected as the Chair of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), after being appointed as member in 2011.
Li Yue'er (Child education and art education expert, Oil painter, Distinguished Professor in preschool education at Shanghai Xingjian College)
Li Yue'er is a child education and art education expert and oil painter. She has been elected as one of the "300 Chinese Oil Painters." Li switched from art education to early childhood education later in life and became a Distinguished Professor in pre-school education at Shanghai Xingjian College. She was once an education expert for Parents Magazine and the CCTV Children's Channel. Li founded an organization called "Li Yue'er Education". She has written many books, including Who Took the Happiness Away from Children?, In the Kindergartens, Connecting the Hands of Two Generations, Who Misunderstands Children's Behaviors?, Crucial Support at the Crucial Period, Observation and Creation, Imagination and Creation, and Appreciation and Creation.
Moderator
Michael Kahn-Ackermann (Stiftung Mercator China Special Representative)
Organizer
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