Study On The Transformation Of Moral Education In Universities During Social Reform In China (from 1978 To 2005)

Since China's reform and opening-up, the social transformation has brought enormous changes in the economic forms and ways of thinking and ideology. Moral education in universities and colleges has been faced with more severe challenges and new problems in the age, therefore, moral education must constantly reform and transform itself to adapt to new changes. The paper, under the direction of dialectical materialism and historical materialism and by applying the theories from philosophy, sociology and economics and other disciplines, analyzes its development process in social transformations and investigates into the innate relationship between the changing of value concepts and moral education in universities and colleges. The methodology includes historical research, literature review, interviews, and individual investigations. The object is moral education in certain periods in universities and colleges. In light of historical experience from moral education during social changes and through the analysis of related cases of moral education in universities and colleges, the paper tries to seek the appropriate position for moral education in universities and colleges during the social transformations so as to push forward the development of moral education in higher education and reconstruct new morality orders in the society. It is comprised of an introduction and the main body, which in turn is composed of six chapters.The introductory part puts forward the purpose of the paper, its value, a summary of previous research on the topic and the line of thinking and the framework of the paper. It also gives definitions for basic concepts in the paper.The first chapter discusses the new environments and new explorations of moral education in universities and colleges during the years from 1978 to 1992 from a historical perspective. In order to deal with the new changes of values and ethics and morality, moral education in universities and colleges has made certain adjustment and reforms, explored new approaches and new contents. However, the steps of moral education reforms on the whole have not caught up with the development of the society. Moral education has been trapped in a passive dilemma when dealing with 'education crises' in universities and colleges.Chapter two focuses on the new developments of moral education in universities and colleges from 1992 to 2005 in the complex social and cultural background. Market economy, globalization, internet etc and all-round higher education reforms are complicated environments for moral education, which is inadaptable to the development of the society etc. The old moral issues have not been completely solved, while there constantly appear new problems that include quality education, psychological health education of university students, honesty education and internet related education. And it has got horizontal developments in reforms.The third chapter from the micro-perspective of two basic factors in moral education structure: the purpose and the functions of moral education, points out that proper functions of moral education can help identify the purpose of moral education, and in the meantime, reasonable purpose of moral education will constrain the appropriate performance of its functions. The paper interprets the purpose and...