Integration Of Moral Education & Psychological Education In The New Era

A comprehensive reform in China's education towards the 21st century is being undertaken to it in with social development, and, in particular, the quality-oriented reform in elementary and secondary schools has been shown special concern for. The core of quality-oriented education is to improve students' overall quality. Mora education in china, however, is quite worrying. With formalism dominating moral education, substantial effects are largely neglected as a result of unilateral concentration on formality in education. As society develops, the connotation of some specific moral awarenesses call for relevant forms of education. In view of this, some forms in psychological education in the West may yet be adopted. This research is intended to investigate the practical integration of moral education and psychological education in view of both forms and contents, in an effort to strengthen substantial results in school education. Three parts of this go as follows.Part I. This part puts forward six existing problems of formalism in moral and psychological education.Part II. This part analyses historically in three aspects the relationship between moral education and psychological education and their tendency of development. The first is to trace source of localism in psychological education from the point of ancient ethics and morality. The second is to psychologically view the objects of moral and psychological education. The thirdfocuses on how dialectical relationship of moral and psychological education provides theoretical foundation for the integration of the two. There exists differences between the two, which means necessity of integration, but meanwhile, there is connection, which provides possibility for integration.Part III. This part explores integration in reality. There is urgency for effective forms, methods and strategies in moral education under such specific circumstances in the wave of modernization in china. Four forms of integration are as follows.l.Impartment--subject teaching2.Cultivation--activities and training3.Direction--instructions in daily life4.1nfiltration--environmental influenceThe creation of morality is aimed for better life, not interference to life, Therefore, moral education should be regarded as such that is based on life and shows respect for life, not to be formalized by stiff dogmas. Only when rooted deep in reality shall moral education stand on solid foundation and possess strong power, and the integration of moral and psychological education, in this sense, does represent such trend. The final aim of education is to enable receivers to be themselves, those to dominate their life.