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Type I: As you come into class, please answer this question.

How do teachers keep order in a classroom? What is effective and what isn’t an effective method of classroom management in your expert opinion.

Confucius

China before Confucius

Period of Warring StatesLots of death and tortureThe ‘State’ has been lost.

Essential Question: How dowe get back to order?

Confucius

Born in 551 B.C.died in 479 B.C.

Confucianism

Concerned primarily with restoring social stability and order What is the basis of a stable, unified, and

enduring social order?a system of social and ethical

philosophy “only when character is cultivated are our

families regulated; only when families are regulated are states well governed.”

Confucianism

li rituals, norms, institutions, or mores the outer, conforming aspect of

Confucianismren

humaneness, love, kindness, benevolence, or virtue

the inner, reforming aspect of Confucianism

Li

Rites, ceremonies, proper behavior, and good manner

universal harmonyperformed in good faith, with

everyone keeping to his or her proper role

no need for physical sanctions, laws, or punishment

Ren

Relationship between "two persons”extension of filial piety to all human

beingseach role in the hierarchy of social

relations had clearly defined duties reciprocity or mutual responsibility

Five relationships

father-childruler-subjecthusband-wifeelder brother-younger brotherfriend-friend

In today’s China