| In the era of the advance and competition of sciences and technology, and in the background of the influences of different cultures on each other in the world, moral education as a science of psychology is facing the challenge of adjustment and reformation. Due to the vicissitude and radical transformation of politics and economy, the youth and teenagers are facing a series of moral problems, such as those of lack of public concerns, of maintaining professional morality, of indifference of people to each other, of deterioration of moral characters, etc. How to do a good job in school moral education in the new period to bring up all-round (morally, intelligently, physically and aesthetically) developing, well-educated, self-disciplied and moral socialist builders and successors is an urgent task we have to take seriously. One way to do this is to learn from and use for reference the experiences of the school moral education in other countries. The school moral education in the U.S.A., a country tolerating different values, has played an important role in maintaining and promoting the stability and development of the society and in training qualified citizens. Therefore, to find out what has happened in school moral education in the U.S., and to learn from its successful experiences, will provide useful references and inspiration for our school moral education.The thesis includes five parts: introduction; the background of the U.S. school moral education; the status quo; features and analysis of the U.S. school moral education; and the inspiration from the U.S. school moral education and some considerations. Based upon the analyses above, the thesis proposes some suggestions for our school moral education by summarizing the discussions above in three aspects: status quo problems of our school moral education; the analysis of the causes of the problems; and suggestions for improving our school moral education. |
