Classes In The Moral Life

Moral education has been one of the focuses of the discussion of education scholars, there are many researches on moral education in the theoretical field, and these theorists also care about the practice in the field of basic education. Traditional moral education is lack of a commensurate effect, the concept of returning moral education to living world has made certain achievements in the practical exploration. Therefore, to link the education and moral education with the life of students is becoming more and more important.The author has performed an ethnography study on moral life of a class in a school, based on personal academic background and research interest, attempting to show a series of profiles of moral life in the class. Neither doing excessive exploration about moral education and life theoretically nor being absorbed in specific educational practice, but act as an "intermediary" of the theory and the practice. To stand on the position of those students, to describe their life, to look at the life of those students in the class by using the author's vision, then to show the moral life orientation of those students in the class.The article begins with the regulations of the class — the orderly life, takes on a series of institutionalized level in the life of the class, such as regulations, trainings, incentives and penalties from the disciplinary norms of the primary elements of morality, reveals the serious moral life of students in the class; After that, transits to a statement of the interaction between teachers and students in class and out of class, takes on anti-institutionalized level in the life of the class from the view of teaching atmosphere and class discipline, namely, a series of interaction between teachers and students in class, from the contradictory level of the interaction between teachers and students which has both friendship and potential conflicts, as well as the evaluation between teachers and students to reveal a major aspect of the moral life of the class. Students are not only in class, but also in school, the article uses a separate chapter to show the group life of those students in the class and in the school. The common life makes the students attaching the group, and a sense of solidarity and dedication is based on the feeling of living together and a shared responsibility among the students. In the last chapter of the article, the voice of "to live a moral life" is uttered by showing the inner feelings of the students and analyzing the text of students.By showing the moral life of the class, the author wants to reflect the following: whether education scholars or educators, we should thoroughly understand students' life, furthermore, their study life and daily life in school, at the same time, make our...