The Comparison Research On Moral Education Of University Between China And America

With development of socialism market economy taking place in our country, thetraditional moral concept has been meeting great challenges. Traditional moraleducation has also been meeting great challenges in the globalized economy. Thetraditional methods of moral education can not meet the needs of social development.In new time, more and more people pay attention to how to complete the moraleducation in the universities. Valuing universities’ moral education research hasextremely vital significance to raise socialism enterprise constructors and successors,stable national and socialism modernization general situation and realize people’s fullscale development. On the one hand, it may not only meet the practical needs onstrengthening the moral education, but also arouse the concern of moral education ofthe whole society, so that it may gain the support from various aspect of our society toensure that our moral education can be developed smoothly. On the other hand, it cannot only deepen the understanding of Marxism, but also enrich the content of moraleducation. Therfore, we should pay more attention to the moral education in theuniversity. Only in this way, can we provide a powerful ideological guarantee for ourcountry’s stability and socialist modernization.In the new world, how to do a good job on ideological and moral education, howto cultivate the college students with “ideal, morality, discipline and culture” and howto develop the college students comprehensively is the core of the problem. On theone hand, we should inherit the advanced achievement of ancient thought in moraleducation to explore the new approaches to the ideological and moral education whichar suit for Chinese modern development; on the other hand, we also should drawlessons from western countries in experiences of ideological and moral education,especially in America, who has more experiences in moral education. In order tosearch for the new ideological and moral education system which is suitable for thedevelopment of our nation, with the guide of fundamental theory of Marxism, byusing the literature method, diachronic method and comparison method, following theprinciple of “regarding men as foundation, emancipating the mind, thinkingcorrespond to reality, advancing with times, initiation and innovation”, the essaymakes the comparison of moral education between Chinese and American universitiesand displays the beneficial enlightenment that the universities moral education in theAmerican brings to us. The thesis plays an important role in moral education in theuniversities. First of all, it makes the analysis on the different historical and culturalfactors in the different countries, which result in the different moral educationsituation. Then, the author makes the comparison of moral education between Chinese and American universities in such aspects as moral education aims, the fundamentaltheories, the content and the ways and methods. According to the comparison, theauthor makes the analysis on the problems and challenges that we should meet in themoral education in our country. Last but not least, it raises the inspiration that how tostudy the experience of American universities’ moral education. Only by comparingcan one distinguish, only by distinguishing can one adopts, only by optimizing canone develop and improve. Therefore, the moral education in our universities shouldimprove and develop by comparing, distinguishing and adopting. Through thecomparison of the identical and different aspects of moral education under differentcultural backgrounds of different societies, the author analyzes their advantages anddisadvantages, assimilates the essence and rejects the dross. We should absorb theirsuccessful experience in moral education, which brings great significance onimproving moral education in our nation.