美国学校公民教育的特点及其借鉴意义

在美国,学校是公民教育的主阵地,美国学校的公民教育致力于提高学生的道德、政治素养,培养合格的公民,推动社会的发展,取得了令人瞩目的成效。通过研究分析发现,美国学校的公民教育具有鲜明的特点,具体表现为人本化、个性化的教育理念,多样性、灵活性的教育方法,渗透性、社会性的教育途径,政治性、阶级性的教育功能。分析美国学校公民教育的特点,吸取其中有益的成分,对创新与完善我国的思想政治教育工作具有重要的借鉴意义。

The Characteristics of American Citizenship Education and Its Significance

In America,school is the main platform of citizenship education,which is devoted to improving the students'moral and political quality,nurturing qualified citizen,and promoting the social development.With research and analysis,we could find that citizenship education has vivid characteristics including people-centered and individulized concept,multiple and flexible methods,permeable and socialized ways,political and class function.It will be of great significance to study and analyze the characteristics of American citizenship education,from which we try to learn something good,so as to improve the ideological and political education in China.