American Ideological And Political Education And Its Reference Values

The United States of America has been attaching great importance to ideological and political education since the founding of the nation. During the history of more than two hundred years, America has developed the theory of ideological and political education which possesses distinguishing features and rich contents. Needless to say, the theory of American ideological and political education represents bourgeois interests and serves the practical needs of maintaining capitalist system. It has sharp class nature, but it also embodies scientific recognition of the law of ideological and political education. The scientific recognition includes some universal values that transcend time and space. Under the guidance of Marxism and the sinicization of Marxism, on the premise of basing on China's realities and serving the great cause of building China's socialism, we should seriously study and adopt the beneficial experience of American ideological and political education.This article falls into five chapters to illustrate American ideological and political education and its reference values. Chapter one introduces the background and significance of the study, domestic and foreign situation of the study, methods and key structure of the study and its creative points. Chapter two studies the history and present situation of ideological and political education in America and offers scientific definition of the terminology. Chapter three summarizes the main contents of ideological and political education in America:patriotism education, religious education, moral education, etc. Chapter four extracts some effective approaches to American ideological and political education that are worth china learning: subject education, practicality education, recessive education, psychological counseling. Chapter five explores the premise, scientific attitude and ultimate goal of referring to American ideological and political education, enhancing and improving China's ideological and political education under the scientific principle of Marxism's class analysis, dialectical analysis and making foreign things serve china and on the premise of analysing American ideological and political education comprehensively and scientifically.