“规范约束”与“意义引领”——当代德育应予重视的一种整合

Regulation Restraint and Significance Guidance of Morality:an Integration in Modern Moral Education

规范约束和意义引领是社会道德的本来内涵,是人生成长和发展的必然关涉,它们是德育应予认真对待和解决好的基本问题。道德的本性不只是单纯的行为规范问题,还包括人生的意义问题;学校德育,不应只注重规范约束,更应注重意义引领;现实德育,过分注重或停留在规范约束上,而弱化意义引领,无益于德育的深化发展和人思想品德的真正发展;现实德育的深化发展和有效展开,必须在观念上和实践上对规范约束和意义引领问题进行有机的整合。

Regulation restraint and significance guidance of morality, the original connotations of social morality and inevitable correlates in life growth and development, are the basic issues to be seriously considered and tackled in moral education. The purpose of this article is to illustrate that from the angle of the nature of morality, moral education not only focuses on imparting morality regulations, but also concerns issues such as life meanings. Therefore, moral education at schools should not emphasize one aspect with the other weakened. Moral education in practice, however, attaches excessive importance to the contents and management on restraints of regulations, rather than intensifying the guidance of the significance of morality, thus impeding the integral moral development of the students as well as the deepening of moral education itself. To strengthen and effectively carry out moral education, it＇s necessary to integrate the two concepts both in theory and in practice.