The U.s. Concept Of Moral Education Research

Moral education is a matter of interest to every country in the world. The study on this problem helps maintain the social stability, promotes social development, the different cultures and thoughts will be met and mixed together. Now, our country is carrying out the deep reform after entering the WTO. In order to make our moral education coincide with this change, we should develop the field of our vision and learn from the civilization of the world. Because it has been proved from the history of the world and China, the country of refusing open will lag behind. The culture of spirit and morality is the same as the material civilization. China and American are both the large countries in the world, although the political system, tradition of culture and value concept are very different, some of their moral education can be shared.The essay is on the point of materialism, starting from human opinion of Maxism, on the basis of the situation and practical development of American moral education and on the line of the history of American moral education. The study keeps the integration of theory and practice, syntheses and abstract, inheritance and creation, and starts from the theory , from many angles and many visions to study American moral education.The essay has three parts:The first part is the deep analysis of American modern moral education.The morality starts from the needs of human existence and development, which is the results of history development. It has to change with the history development. During the development of the American moral education, America absorbed the theory of Hegel and Dewey, who specified the morality to be social factor and individual factor. And it is said that morality is the limitation of behaviors among social members, which doesn't have the power of law and many of the behaviors appear tounderstand and obey the social rules. So America emphasize much more the shape of individual morality, strengthen of the individual judgement and development of individual moral consciousness. Recently, argument about moral education appeared in the America is also on the basis of emphasizing the individual moral education. So from the American history and situation, we can trace back the origin of American moral education: multi-culture is the origin of American moral education; religion is the premise of development of American moral education; pragmatism is the core of American moral education; individualism is the result of the American moral education development.The second part are the theories and models about American moral education.The shaping, decling and developing of American moral education take orders from its history and culture, and its multi-culture and individualism play more important roles, especially all the things starts from the pragmatism. So during the development of the moral education not only appear theories, but also appear many models of moral education to guide practical moral education.1. The theory basis of American moral education.The essay introduce three schools in America: rationalism and enternalism; pragmatism and reformism; humanism moral education.2. The models of American moral educationThe idea of pragmatism which makes the people of America take the measures in the moral education is to utilize the part of moral education to satisfy their needs. So till now, different state in American can make the rules to use the different models, the destination is to pr6mote the levels of students' moral education.Model One includes theory basis building models, value clarification models, social behavior models and consideration models.Model Two includes Durkheim models, Wilson models, Kohlberpmodels, value clarification models.The third part are the advantage and disadvantage of American moral education.Although American is the most advanced economy country, its moral education is not perfect. Through the analysis about its history and situation, we know its advantage and disadvantage. Besides tha...