A Comparative Study Of Core Values Education Between China And The United States

The core values education is the core problem in the ideological and political education, which plays a leading and normative role in the development of a nation’s ideology.The radiation power and influence of the core values is the spiritual core of a country’s cultural soft power, and it is the value tool of the nation’s governance, but also the important embodiment of the nation’s comprehensive strength.This paper is from the socialist cultural power and the construction of socialistic core value view and what the education really needs, use the Marxist stand, viewpoint and method to understand and analysis of the core values education, discusses the practical value of core values education in America and it’s contemporary function to core values education in China,in order to provide useful supplement and reference for the cultivation and practice of our socialist core values.Firstly,it studies the development of the core values education in China and the challenges it faces. Core values of China has experienced from ancient, modern to contemporary evolution, inherited the traditional Chinese values of cultural gene, and to absorb the Marxist value thought, summed up the valuable experience of China’s reform and opening up, developed the Marxist theory treasure house. The core values education of ancient Chinese attach importance to people-oriented, emphasizing moral education is first, advocate self seeking, by weighing benefit to clear value orientation; in education methods,it pays attention to learn to both think and introspection cultivating oneself and induction of enlightenment, prefer body teaching to language teaching and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. To carry out the education of socialist core values, we should inherit and carry forward the fine tradition, but also based on the reality problem. At present, our socialist core value view education is facing the challenge of three aspects:the security of national ideology facing severe challenges, the authority of the social order during the period of transformation is difficult to aggregate and individual citizens moral anomie are frequent.Secondly, it makes a comprehensive analysis of the core values education of the United States.One is to analyze the evolution logic of American school values education, and experiences the development of cognitive moral development law, value clarification, social action and new moral education law. Two is the key point of view of the core values of the United States education major features. Respecting students’ value view education in the subject position, advocating the cultivation of the students’ individuality, guide the students to consciously in the moral practice; pay attention to the invisible education and subtle cultural influence.Government, religion, the media, the family and social are an important carrier of the core values education; pay attention to the core values of overseas output and communication, the expansion of the core values influence around the world. Three is the analysis of the essence of the United States core values education, in order to defend the interests of the United States of America, to consolidate its hegemony in the world.Thirdly,make a thorough analyze to the contradictions and conflicts between the United States and the value of conflict and conflict behind the value of the differences. China is the largest developing country in the world, the United States is the world’s largest developed country, the two countries differ in terms of cultural tradition, the basic national conditions, life style and social system, in the field of political, economic, military, cultural and diplomatic exist many conflicts and differences between core values is the root cause of the conflict. In the value principle, the Chinese take collectivism as the principle, the United States takes individualism as the foundation; in the value target, "Chinese dream" and "American Dream" have the important difference in the connotation.Finally, the full text of the focus on the United States of America’s core values education to China’s core values education enlightenment. The author puts forward the correct thinking to the American core value education; summarize four principles of the American education of core values, namely individualism and communitarianism, both government and market complementary functions, rigid constraints and flexible combination of education, cultural infiltration and military intervention simultaneously; puts forward five effective methods of China’s socialist core values education, promote positive interaction between school, family and community education of core values,develops the function of government leading and cultural market in core values education,gives full play to the main channel of the news media,advanced to play characters with "the most beautiful phenomenon" value guide, vigorously promote the spread of socialist core values, in order to strengthen the socialist core values education effect.