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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.
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