This study was to investigate the research trend of child education theses which were related to traditional society by analyzing their number, research contents, and research methods. Findings of this study were as follows: First, the amount of child education theses related to traditional society published during the first and second periods was small. However their amount began to increase during the third period and drastically increased during the sixth and seventh periods. Second, the research contents of child education theses related to traditional society had been the child education until the fifth period. The theses which studied the awareness and actual condition of the education for traditional culture, the development of the educational programs or learning methods for traditional culture, and the effect of the education for traditional culture had increased drastically during the sixth and seventh periods, whereas the theses on child education and perspective on children began to decrease during the same periods. Third, literature, survey, and experimental studies had been used as the research methods of theses on traditional society s child education during the first and second periods. The third period had witness the beginning of using the content analysis and development study, and various research methods had been used during the fifth period. Survey, experimental, and development studies had increased greatly during the sixth period. The great increases of experimental and development studies but the decrease of the content analysis had been witnessed during the seventh period.