The Study Of Characteristics And Value Of Civic Education In Singapore

With the development of economy and the advancement of globalization,the environment and object factors of ideological and political education changes over time.In order to promote the construction of spiritual civilization effectively,our country's ideological and political education must reform and innovate and keep the pace with the times.Singapore is a new immigrant country which the majority of people is Chinese.Its material and spiritual civilization constructions have got a rapid development in just a few decades,and the populace's cultivation are praised for the world.The reason that Singapore has got such unbelievable achievement is closely related to the effective implementation of civic education.However,China and Singapore both belong to Asian cultural circle,so they are deeply influenced by Confucian Culture and have many similarities in historical development.Thus,there exists necessity and feasibility to learn from civic education in Singapore.Civic education in Singapore is not a mature system at first.It absorbed the essence of Western art theory of civic education and explored the practices in line with its national conditions.These theories include liberal citizenship education,republicanism citizenship education,communitarianism citizenship education and multiculturalism citizenship education.Different historical period has different implementation of civic education in Singapore.it has undergone four phases: the phase of reflection and exploration,the phase of development and propulsion,the phase of setbacks and rectification and the phase of maturity and formation.In the process of exploring and developing,it has formed a unique mode of civic education in Singapore.The characteristics of Singapore's civic education are mainly shown in four aspects: put emphasis on Confusion tradition,focus on instilling Confusion Ethics and put Confusion Ethics in social activities;put emphasis on national consciousness and national identity,focus on creating a national identity community and waking up the national identity values;respect for the value of cultural diversity;focus on the combination of virtue and law.It is necessary to absorb the advanced experiences of other country.Therefore,By analyzing the characteristics of civic education in Singapore,we can get some enlightenments: locate the target reasonably;outstanding contents' scientificity and times;combined with western advanced theories and methods;build cooperative mechanism of ideological and political education and combined moral education with law control to create a favorable education environment.These measures effectively promoted the reformation and innovation of ideological and political education.