| Moral education plays a key role in Chinese education, while the actual effect is the core of moral education nowadays. In fact, there's a misplay in the development of Chinese moral education. The moral education deviates from the real life of students, which serves as the base of its existence. Therefore, the motif value itself loses under the pressure of overemphasizing the implement function. In order to walk out of the present puzzledom and improve the substantial results, it is necessary to advocate the life characteristic of moral education in middle school.In this paper, the author tried to start from the relationship between life and moral education, to construct the theory frame of life characteristic in moral education and to explore a new way of middle school moral education. The three parts of this paper were as follows:1.By analyzing the abuse of cognition characteristic in traditional education, the connotation of life characteristic in moral education was defined here. The traditional moral education paid much attention to the cognition study. However, the principal part was neglected. As a result, there was no training on attitude, sensibilities and value based on the experience of life. Modern moral education should go back to the real life and emphasize the experience from the present world. The life characteristic was the value tropism in modern moral education.2.The historical origins and theoretical basis were discussed in detail in the second part. From the philosophy ponderation on the origins of moral and life, on the relationship between education and life, the significance of life characteristic in education was expound clearly. There were profound historical origins for presenting the life characteristic in moral education. Moral education has been originating from the life, serving the life and affecting the life. Therefore, the life characteristic was an essential attributes of moral education. Meanwhile, the pragmatism ideology from John Dewey (1859~1952), the life-education theory from Tao Xingzhi (1891~1946),... |