On The Value Of Moral Education In School Rituals

As an action symbol with badge and performance, rituals accompanied and composited with human culture and civilization’s process, is the crystallization of human culture and the practice; As an important institutions of spread and creating human culture and civilization, schools use rituals to carry out specific education activity. Moral education value is the most significant education value in school rituals. In-depth analysis and understanding within school rituals in the value of moral education and moral education, to promote students’ well moral quality and moral growth, the way of school’s moral education and actual effect, has important theory value and practical significance.This study draws on domestic and foreign anthropology research results about rituals, using functional analysis, interdisciplinary research method and literature method. This article analysis and defines the meaning of school rituals, characteristics and types, and further demonstrates the school ceremony system’s composition and structure. Based on this premise, this article reveals the current status quo and existing problems of the current school rituals, from the ceremony purpose intolerance, activity way formal education activities tend to serious, activity way drab, lack of resources development aspects surveyed and so on. Then, this article expounds the theoretical foundation of school’s ritual moral education, including Emile durkheim’s " Mechanism Ritual Theory", Randall Collins’ s "The Interactive Service of Chain Theory", "Functional Rituals Theory" and Victor Turner’s of "The Structure and Inverse Structure of Ritual Theory ". This article also analysis the basic value of moral education in the school rituals, from the rite value transfer, moral education and the characteristics of value transfer mechanism, and the ceremony of school moral education value content etc. Finally, based on the theory analysis and practice reflection, this article put forward countermeasures for the school moral education value of practical applications.This study argues that ritual is a way of education which inner contains the value of moral education, except symbolic significance, it also contains profound moral education value. To arouse the students’ moral sacredness, stimulate the moral experience, improve citizen consciousness and optimize of school’s moral culture, ritual activities have important values. To make school education play a ritual of moral education value, it should return to the sanctity of ritual and life itself. In exploring and inheriting the traditional cultural heritage, carrying out the ceremony, on the basis of creativity, we should use ritual education of moral value in a deep understanding and effective, promoting it as an important resources in the students moral growth.