Reasearch On Current Citizenship Awareness Education In Chinese Schools

Citizenship education is a fundamental educational issue assigned by the Chinese Communist Party as well as the whole nation. Report to the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China,which was a party document related to citizenship education, demanded that "we need to step up education about citizenship and establish socialist concepts of democracy, the rule of law, freedom, equality, equity and justice" In July,2010, National Education Reform and Development of Long-term Planning Programs drawn up by the Ministry of Education also stressed that "we need to step up education about citizenship and establish socialist concepts of democracy, the rule of law, freedom, equality, equity and justice, cultivate qualified citizens for socialism",which could be seen as a natural hereditament of the document mentioned previously. Citizenship education belongs to the cetegory of Civic Education, which has disputes theoretically and is difficult to reach an agreement. Threoretical disputes are obstacles to the practice of citizenship education. As a matter of fact, citizenship education is not prominent in national educational system currently, and it is still difficult to carry out citizenship education in schools. Faced with the difficulties in terms of theory and practice, the issue of citizenship education is of great emergency. Questios such as whether civic education is necessary, possible in schools, and how it should be carried out must be answered.The dissertation mainly researches on current citizenship education in Chinese schools, explores the relationship between citizenship education and ideological and political education, the significance, possibility and methods of citizenship education in schools.Results based on the research could improve ideological and political education, making the citizenship education evolve from theory to practice and providing fresh ideas for carring out the Party's policies.The first part of the dissertation tries to anlyze and define the concepts, connotations and features of techinical terms such as citizen, civic awareness, citizenship education, discuss the relationship among citizenship education and ideological and political education as well as moral education, review the development of thought of citizenship education both in home and abroad. Based on the analysis of Chinese thoughts of citizenship education, especially the thoughts of the years following China has taken the reform and opening up policy, the dissertation holds that citizenship education in schools is not mature in China, that citizenship education is an indispensable part of ideological and political education as well as moral education, that citizenship education could improve and broaden ideological and political education.The second part of the dissertation attempts to anlyze the necessity, possibility and restraining fators of citizenship education in schools. On the subject of necessity, the dissertation holds it is the practical need of modernization construction, extension of moral education, construction of modern citizenship and individual socialization. The dissertation proposes citizenship education is an enlightening force of modern citizenship. Based on the research on the relationship between citizenship education and individual politicalization, the dissertation proposes that citizenship educatio may provide democaratic political practice for individual politicalization.The dissertation also investigates the possibility of citizenship education in schools. To probe into socialism core value system's practice and citizenship education in schools and establish the practical possibility of it both in theory and practice, the arguments of dissertation are on the basis of the Party and government's document and they are under the direction of Marxism all around development education philosophy. Based on the case study of key cases, the dissertation responds to the questions of academia by summarizing benefits reaped by current citizenship education in schools.The paper also objectively investigate the existing difficulties and unfavorable factors in citizenship education, pointing out that the restraining factors are obstacles to it. The deviation of the teaching ideas, lack of institutional guarantee, traditional ethics and culture are not conducive to subject consciousness, the sense of the rights and duties of the citizens, sense of democracy and legal awareness. Therefore, the implementation of school citizenship education stii has a long way to go. If we worked out the restrictive factors in the school citizenship education, it would be a strong impetus to promoting our school citizenship education from theory to practiceThird part of the dissertation is a study on the construction of the theoretical system. This part constructs the conception system in terms of principles, objectives and content of the citizenship education. Through this part of the study, strengthening our overall planning, improving civic awareness from the national to the local level would be possible. In a variety of methods applied, daily life education is of great importance and value in developing students'civic awareness. The dissertaton proposes a diversified and interactive teaching mode in daily life, and puts forward innovative teaching methods of citizenship education in schools to make the implementation of citizenship more effective.Reviewing the history of Chinese thoughts of citizenship education, looking back on the theory and practice of citizenship education, focusing on the system construction of citizenship education, the dissertation looks farther forward to the future development trend of the citizenship education:it will be disciplinarized, localized, human-centered, relevant to life and internationalized.