The Growing Civil Society And Civil Morality Education In China

Since the1990s, the operational logic of market economy to some extent hasdeveloped the growth of our civil society because of its respect to the independenceand human rights. However, to construct and improve the civil society, the support ofeconomy is far from enough, and we still need the support of ethics, culture andconsciousness as well as the protection of new citizen and new civil moral education.The civil moral education needs the participation of government, family, society andschool, among which the school moral education undoubtedly plays the most efficientrole and has the inescapable responsibility. Therefore, it is extremely important tosystematically analyze the characteristics and development tendency of the society,investigate its reflection on the moral education, find difficulties we will face in thereformation, discuss the responsibility and measures the moral education will takeduring the growth of the whole society. Besides, through the discussion we can notonly comprehend the basic characteristics of moral education more thoroughly anddeeply, develop the educational theories and promote the discipline construction, butwe can provide necessary theoretical foundation and referential scheme for thepractical reformation.Firstly, this research will clarify the basic connotation of civil society and civil civilmorality education in Chinese context according to the special development ofChinese society and then denote the indisputable fact of moral deficiency. Next theresearch will focus on expounding by two roads. One road is the civil moralityeducation. It means that through the sorting of Chinese and western resources ofmoral education, we find that we did not lack in the cultural resources, but the civileducation did not generate spontaneously in the end, which was only a western conception full of change and inclusiveness. Another road is the civil society, whichmeans that through the comparison of Chinese and Western civil society and that ofthe starting and growing period in Chinese civil society, we can analyze the growingcharacteristics of Chinese civil society and its differences from other countries.Accordingly, the models of relationship between civil morality and civil society,which was presented from the Chinese and Western civil society, are the same. It is tosay that they both have the double characteristics of change and changelessness. Thechangelessness refers to the interaction of civil morality and civil society, while thechange means the conception of civil morality in the society. We need to relate thecivil moral education to the historic background of national and social transformationas well as the double characteristics. Only by this can we rethink and try to resolve theproblems of the present moral education inappropriate to the development of civilsociety so that we can theoretically offer missions and directions of the civil moraleducation and practical scheme.The first chapter is generally about the analysis of the civil society and civilmorality education in Chinese context. It first clarifies the conception of civil societyand civil morality, on this basis it refers to the moral deficiency and the origin fromdifferent aspects like culture, history, economy and elite class. The second chaptermainly talks about the ideological resources of Western civil morality, which aims toseek culture foundation and development direction for the construction of presentChinese civil morality. The content of the third chapter is that in the late19th centuryand early20th century when Chinese civil society started and civil morality educationbegan to appear, the history gave the nation a chance to separate from the society. Thesprout of civil society could be seen from the ideology, mass organizations, localself-government and freedom of expression. Meanwhile, the Chinese people tried tolearn the Western moral ethics and explore new education system focused on civilmoral education practically and systematically. However, the subsequent civilmorality was nationalized, which deviated from its original intention. The fourthchapter is about the Chinese and the growing characteristics of civil society throughthe comparison between Chinese and Western society as well as that between the starting period and growing period in Chinese society. Based on the clarification ofbasic characteristics in the growing Chinese civil society, the fifth chapter turns to theopportunities and problems we will face in the reformation of Chinese civil moraleducation. The content of the sixth chapter is the mission and practical strategy ofcivil moral education in China. It is another enlightenment of civil morality to makethe moral education fitting to the civil society. The basic points are independentpersonality, public spirit and freedom. What’s more, the practical strategies of civilmoral education can be clarified in three aspects. First is to adjust the content of moraleducation. Second is to build increasingly open subject system. Third is to set up themass organization.