The American School Ideological And Political Education And The Enlightenment To Our Country

School education of ideology and politics is an important part about the culturaleducation in almost all the countries in the world. All sorts of schools in the UnitedStates particularly take education of ideology and politics seriously, its contents arequite rich, they lay emphasis on training students’responsibility consciousness andconcept of benefits. They also grade education through plenty of teaching methodsand permeating one another among the different subjects to combine pertinence withunderstanding hierarchy. All kinds of schools in the United States have gained a lot ofexperience in the field of education of ideology and politics, and understanding thecharacteristics of the school education of ideology and politics in the United Statescan have certain enlightenment and reference significance on the development of oureducation of ideology and politics, such as falling into our aim on ideological andpolitical education for school to enrich its contents, strengthening our quality-orientededucation and legal education, stressing cooperation between families and societiesand also using the way of recessive education and so on. This article is divided intofour parts. In the first part, it mainly tells theoretical connotation and historicalevolution about education of ideology and politics in American schools. In the secondone, it mainly analyses the characteristics for contents of the school education ofideology and politics in the United States, however, its contents are hidden into someof the educations and it has its specific parts, they are citizenship education, historyeducation, moral education, legal education and life education etc. In the third one, itdiscusses the characteristics for methods of the school education of ideology andpolitics in the United States through setting up correlation lessons, organizingafter-school activities, building yard cultures, setting inquiry agencies and setting upparents’hot-lines etc. In the last one, it researches the characteristics for contents andmethods of the school education of ideology and politics in the United States and agreat number of enlightenments for our school education.