The Research On American New Character Education

In the early 1980 s,the American moral field was like a world of clouds,and teenagers were popular with extreme individualism.The hippie culture was sought after,and the students were unruly and disrespectful.The phenomenon of juvenile delinquency was intensified.New character education at this time came into being,and flourished for more than 30 years,becoming the forefront of the development of the field of moral education in the United States,the most widely used moral model.The Americans have attached great importance to the character education of citizens since the founding of the United States,training with a good quality of the Republic of citizens.With the development of American society,American character education has undergone several changes.Emerging American new character education in theory inherited the ancient Greek Aristotle to create the virtues of ethics,new character education experts believe that the traditional virtues of time through the precipitation and testing is a valuable asset in the history of human civilization,but also modern people to settle down But the new character education is not satisfied with the simple return of traditional moral education,the new character education experts in the criticism of modern value clarification theory and moral cognitive development theory caused by education on the relativism while absorbing its reasonable part,to extract Eleven principles of new character education.In practice,American schools not only set up special character courses,but also through other disciplines course infiltration;class culture,teacher influence and school building and other "soft culture" factors throughout the new character education campus life in all aspects;education experts with particular emphasis on school To work with families and communities to create a social environment to train students’ character.New character education in the inheritance of traditional virtues and teaching practice scientific quantification has been affirmed,but confined to the concept of definition and implementation of difficult,in reality,limited development.The key to the study of American new character education is to form the inspiration to our current moral education in our country,to strengthen the education of socialist core values,to pay attention to the inheritance and development of traditional moral education,to strengthen the creation of moral education situation and to promote the development and progress of school moral education in our country.