Positive Moral Education

The moral education committed to cultivate the moral person and to promote the improvement of society. Meantime, the passive-approached moral education ignored and tried to inhibitive the positive trait, potential and desire owned by the educated which cause the educator to be sensitive to the bad character and problems of the educated and treat them in the ways of nit-pick, question, criticize, fault-finding and punishment. This kind of moral education easily deteriorated the relationship between the educators and educated, reduced the authority and positive influence of educator, obstructed the cultivation of good virtue, even not mentioned about the target and commitment of moral education.The positive psychology is the main approach of American psychology in 20th's century to directly counter the passive psychology which takes the negative influence of human's psychological problem, disorder and environmental pressure as the main topic research. While the positive psychology takes the human's positive aspect as the main topic. It advocates that we should remain a positive attitude to the psychological phenomena (or problem) and stimulate the individual's internal positive power and fine qualities. Thus it postulates that psychology should take the actual potential constructive power, virtue and kindness as the starting point.Aimed at the passive problems of moral education in the traditional and realistic society, the positive moral education is the creative ideas and practical strategies resulted from the application of positive psychology in the domain of moral education. It starts from the positive moral character, development wishes and potential of the educated, take the positive and active method such as approval, encouragement, appreciation and enforcement and create the educational moral relationship full of respect, sincerity, understanding, care, trust and fair. The main purpose of positive education is to cultivate the positive moral character, during which course, eliminate the bad moral character and prevent the evil practice.It is argued that the positive moral education take the positive good-inclined-human-nature option as the premise and basis. The main moral educational target is to cultivate the virtue and the secondly target is to inhibit the evil. It also proposes that the realization mode is to promote the moral growth (which is an addition), not to remedy the bad habit (which is a subtraction). The dissertation holds the option that psychological elements such as positive experience, cognition and behavior and their formed psychological construct and functional method constitutes the elements of psychological mechanism of virtue-cultivation, while the moral desire, inner motivation, self-efficacy and their inter-relationship and function mode make up the dynamic psychological mechanism of virtue-cultivation.In the view of moral educator, only if there is a fall of morality between the educator and the educated, that can they educate and influence the educated with the power and effect. The paper articulated that the educated is a complete "person" not a "question", an agent with overt moral character and even with inner moral wishes and potential independent development. Only those relationships full of respect, sincerity, understanding, care, trust and fair, which is also a relationship of educated being-treated morally, can stimulate their positive experience and exert an influence to virtue-formation of the educated.Briefly, the positive moral education takes the positive and active educational technique to stimulate the positive experience and promote and cultivate the virtue of the educated. They consist of there aspect:to construct the positive educational relationship, to facilitate perfect character and the establishment of virtue of the educated. Meanwhile, they also reflect in the language art of positive moral education and in the understanding and application of punishment.