A Research On The Stages And The Realism Of Citizenship Education Of Contemporary China

Citizenship education is commonly conducted of all countries in the world.After the founding of new China to the reform and opening-up, the citizenship education of our country was replaced by political education.The true meaning of citizenship education in contemporary China’s development is in after the reform and opening up. A series of important documents of the party and country of citizenship education have clear requirements and regulations.There were citizenship education in primary and middle schools curriculum system.Through concerning the practice of citizenship education in contemporary China, I found that in different period of national development there were different understanding and practising of citizen and citizenship education.It is the development orientation of citizenship education.By researching the development of citizensip education,I found that there were different social needs,different development level of citizens, the constraints of the society. All of this I call it the reality of citizenship education development.This paper attempts to make a division of the development of civic education in contemporary China, that is stage of the citizen’s quality education, citizen’s moral education, civic education.In different stages of development, requirements for citizenship education are different, this is the orientation and development of citizenship education. The purpose of research on the development orientation of citizenship education is to reveal the reality orientation of citizenship education development, as the reality of the citizen education of our country to carry out the conception of reality.For this, this paper focuses on five aspects:The first chapter studied on the general theory of of citizenship education.Citizenship education is education on the citizens, is education about citizenship, is about how to be a good citizen. Comparing to the ideological and political education,citizenship education has different education requirements and different content.By comparing them we can clearly identify what contemporary education in China is citizenship education and the relationship bettwen citizenship education and the ideological and political education.Characteristics of citizenship education is that it is universal, lifelong, diverse, timely and political.Revealing the nature and characteristics of citizenship education is the basis of this work, also the basis of carrying out this study.The second chapteris the stagea of development citizenship education orientation of contemporary China.Orientation of the development stage of citizenship education and its reality is the key part of this paper.This chapter first made clear what is the orientation of citizenship education, what is the development orientation of citizenship education, what is the basis for the development of citizenship education orientation.The main part of this chapterr is the stages of citizenship education in coontemporary China.Based on the national background of citizenship education,I chose national file concerning citizenship education as the standard.So the stages of citizenship education in contemporary China will be divided into three stages:the stage of the citizen’s quality education (nineteen eighties middle to late twentieth Century), the stage of moral education of citizens (2001to17before) and Citizenship Education (Party Congress in2007to so far).Respectively emphasized the citizen’s quality education, moral education and civic education in the state of these three stages, showed that the development of citizenship education in our country is a from lower to higher, from the edge to the corel.The third chapter is the international comparing of citizenship education development.In this chapter I chose four countries as the object of international experience,namely the United States, Britain, Japan and Singapore.First, I divided the phases of citizenship education development of the above four countries.Based on this basis, I found the citizenship education is a reflection of social reality needs, and the level and status of its citizens influenced the conversion of citizenship education orientation.The fourth chapter is the realistic thinking of the citizenship education of contemporary china.This chapter is the conclusion of the study, and is also one of the core of this paper.Firstly,citizenship education was born in the need of the society. The need of the development of citizenship education orientation also comes from the national and social development.At the same time social reality is determined according to the target of citizenship education, social reality determine the citizenip education conditions and provide material support.Political needs are always power for citizenship education.Secondly, the citizen’s own level of development is the objective constraints the development of citizenship education.Citizen is the main body of citizenship education.Citizenship education is education on the citizens, for the citizens and it is education relying on citizens.Factors of the development level of citizen also restrict the citizenship education process.Citizenship status is the starting point of realistic education, self will and the ability of citizens has a great influence on citizenship education process.Finally, to what content the reality of social development to meet the provisions of citizensip education is the boundary of the evolution of citizenship education.Orientation of citizenship education is the social realistic expectations.Citizenship education needs the social reality to prepare, and there is boundary for orientation of citizenship education,that is the regulations of social reality. The fifth chapter is the realistic thinking of the construction of citizenship education in China.Theoretical research must serve the practice,that is the value of it.In this chapter firstly the orientation of citizenship education must be based on reality.Our society is the realistic foundation of the kernel, the present level of citizen development is the important reference basis in reality, but also there is certain degree of preparation on the development level of citizens.Secondly, the content of citizenship education should embody the essence of citizens. Civic knowledge is the foundation of modern citizenship education, civic competence and skills is the focus of modem citizenship education, consciousness on rights and obligations of citizens is the core of citizenship education. Of course, the citizen consciousness education especially ethnic characteristics, needs to use the native resources.Finally, the path to citizenship education, classroom education for students in primary and junior school should be the basic channel.Simultaneously citienship education should be conduceted in civil practice and legal system construction.