A Research On Value Education In American Universities After World War Ⅱ

After the 18 th CPC national congress,Xi Jinping attached great importance to the construction of spiritual culture and socialist core values.In the decades of development after the second world war,the American university value education has constructed a set of relatively perfect theoretical system and rich practical experience.Learning the beneficial elements of American college value education has valuable reference significance for the research of Chinese college socialist core value education.In the development stage of American college value education,"world war ii" is an obvious dividing line.Before "world war ii",American college value education was in the rising development stage,mainly focusing on religious education,aiming at "Americanization" of citizens,and tending to centralized and unified indoctrination education.After world war ii,the value education in American colleges and universities mainly includes two stages.Before the 1980 s,the value education in American colleges and universities was dominated by the mode of value clarification and presented a laissez-faire state.However,after the 1980 s,the value education dominated by the new character education is the foundation of the value education system of American colleges and universities.In American college value education,individualism value is the core starting point."Freedom" and "equality" are the cornerstones of American college value education,and "justice","respect","responsibility","fraternity" and other moral values are important components of American college value education.Values education in colleges and universities education in the United States by three links,family values education,campus values education and values education in community and society.These paths complement each other,interlocking,values education not only breaks the rigid and boring,but also improve the integrity of values education and avoid students to accept a single mode of teaching.In the course of decades of exploration and practice,the American university value education has concluded a relatively perfect university value education system and value education system,fundamentally guaranteed the core position of value education from the perspective of the country,and defined the general direction of the content system.At the same time,it adopts multiple methods of value education,which makes value education lively.For the socialist core values education in colleges and universities in China,on the one hand,we should establish the leading position of socialist core values education in colleges and universities,strengthen the system construction of socialist core values education,and control the content and direction of education.At the same time,we should also pay attention to the organic combination of explicit and implicit education,create diverse and flexible ways of socialist core values education in colleges and universities,and enhance the vitality and vitality of socialist core values education in China’s colleges and universities.