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A Study on Fundamental Problems of Moral Education in Early Childhood : Focusing on Aristotle

The purpose of this paper is to examine the fundamental problems that occur when implementing moral education in early childhood. First, the moral education targeting children, who has not yet reached the stage of having reason, trains the ‘body’ to achieve ‘reason’ as the ultimate goal. This is because, if early childhood is simply proficient in cultivating the ‘body’, it is difficult to acquire a new attitude to follow ‘reason’ when they reach the stage of acquiring reason. Second, although early childhood with an element of unreasonable emotion tends to be prone to mimesis whenever they see a vice, early childhood is accustomed not to mimesis the vice. Teachers can prevent developing bad habits in early childhood, if possible, by not showing vice and restraining them whenever early childhoods see and imitate vice. And teachers can develop good ‘habits’ by seeing virtues and praising them whenever children mimesis them.