| Subject & Major:Teachins: Moral EducationSpeciality:Teaching of Moral Education in Secondary SchoolsSupervisor:Associate Prof Lu LinAuthor:Liu Lina (198026)Politics plays an important role in the system of moral education in vocationalsecondary schools and an effective exert of the function of it is significant for theformation of the good qualities of students' political, ideological, moral andpsychological traits. This thesis firstly supplies a survey and an analysis of these aspectsand the present situation of the teaching of this subject in vocational secondary schools.Then with this as the basis, the author tries to see through the function and loss of moraleducation in the subject of politics in vocational secondary schools, and to explore thecauses of it so as to find out a possible kind of reform in the teaching of this subject andmake full use of it in the overall d~yelopmentQfthe good qualities of secondary schoolstudents.The thesis illustrates the moral-educational functions of politics in vocationalsecondary schools from the perspectives of the property of moral education, the majorchannel position of it, the task of developing students' qualities of moral andpsychological thinking, and the characteristics of the subject. These functions are as thefollowing: the developing function of political qualities; the assuring function ofintelligence, health and aesthetics; the promoting function of personalityIn this thesis, we mainly analyze the loss of the functions and its causes. It is arguedin this thesis that there are losses on different degrees in the present direction of ideology;the foundation of moral qualities; the assurance of intelligence, health and aesthetics; andthe psychological care as well. The major causes are as the following: the lagging behindof the teachers' thinking, the unpracticability of text books, the out-of-date methods ofteaching, and the lack of multi-methods in evaluation.In order to solve these problems, we also proposes principles of reform in thepresent situation, that is, to adhere to knowledge and education property and toforeground the education property; to adhere to the unity and different levels and toemphasize on the feasibility; and to adhere to the unification of particularity andgenerality. Under the guide of certain rules, we can set up a characteristic system ofmoral education in vocational secondary schools and explore the teaching strategiesproper to the cognitive features of students in vocational secondary schools. We can thusoptimize the teaching methods and reform, and improve the evaluation system so as tofrilly bring into play the moral-educational functions of politics in vocational secondaryschools and realize the purpose of educating. |