A Research On Citizen Moral Education In Singapore

Confucianism is the main source of power of the Chinese nation, and also a dynamic force of modernization. It seems the island’s moral education be destined cannot to do without Confucianism, which is the mainstream of the foundation of Chinese traditional culture, since the first batch of Chinese ancestors came to Singapore in fourteenth Century. Although Singapore is a tiny but densely populated island, it has not only made great achievements that attracted worldwide attention in the economy, but also made worldwide acknowledged success in the preservation and inheritance of the five thousand years of Chinese traditional culture. As an old saying goes, Stones from other hills may serve to polish the jade of this one. The school moral education in Singapore intermingle both the features of East and West.This paper takes the citizen moral education of Singapore as the mainly research object. It firstly gives a review of each stage of the citizen moral education in Singapore and summarizes the main points of its development process, by analyzing the situation and historical background of it. And studying thoroughly of the moral education sport of Confucian ethics happen in the eighty’s of last century, which is the most remarkable period in the development process of citizen moral education in Singapore, based on the overview of the general situation of civic moral education in Singapore. Then summarizing the main measures taken by Singaporean government to implement Confucian moral education when facing a moral crisis caused by excessive "Westernization" and the three generations of the traditional family structure,through analyzing the profound historical background and the main reason of the moral education sport of Confucian ethics happen in the eighty’s of last century. Abstracting the main features of the experience of the Confucian moral education on the basement of concluding the powerful measures taken by the Singapore government, such as having invited famous Confucians’ Group meeting in Singapore, gave fully play to the mass media to advertising campaigns, written the teaching materials-- "Confucian ethics" in Chinese and English version, trained the teachers of "Confucian ethics" course and founded the Institute of the East Asian philosophy in order to enhance the citizen’s understanding of Confucianism in Singapore, and also concluding the important views of overseas experts about Confucianism and the contemporary Singapore, so as to withdraw the important inspiration which is of realistic significance for our moral education practices, to provide important ideological ferment for our moral construction.