感恩意识及感恩教育探析

Discussion on the Gratitude Awareness and its Education

中国传统儒家文化蕴涵了丰富的感恩资源:孝为报父母恩,忠为报君报国恩,信为报友恩,义为报天下恩。感恩意识在当今许多人尤其是在学生中存在普遍缺失的现象,感恩意识的缺失固然有很多方面的原因,但从根本上讲是优秀传统文化被遗弃的结果。现代社会需要感恩,但不能把感恩意识扩大化。当前的感恩教育应基于三个层面:在人与自然的关系层面,人类应当对自然怀有感恩之心;在人与人的关系层面,人应该有相互感恩之心;在人与社会的关系层面,不同的主体应有不同的感恩目标诉求。

Showing gratitude, though with a long history in the Chinese. Confucian tradition, is now declining, particularly among the school children, the causes of which are multifold, but basically it is the outcome of the relinquishment of the traditional culture. The society, however modem,is still in need of the gratitude consciousness. Nevertheless, the consciousness has to be brought under check rently, the education of showing gratitude has to rely on three aspects, which will be expounded upon in the paper.