贺拉斯·曼公民教育思想探析

A Research on Horace Mann's Thought of the Civil Education

为美国公立学校制度奠定基础的贺拉斯·曼被誉为美国"公立学校之父"。他发起公立学校运动的目的是普及教育,而普及教育的目的则是通过普及知识提高公民实际生活知识和能力,更重要的是塑造公民的灵魂,提高公民的道德意识,培养具有美国化精神的好公民。贺拉斯.曼从体育、智育、政治教育、道德教育、宗教教育几方面阐述了他的国家本位观下的公民教育思想,在美国公民教育的历史中,占有极为重要的位置。

Horace Mann is a well-deserved ＂the father of public schools.＂ He launched the public school campaign aimed at universal education.The aim is to enhance citizens through universal access to knowledge and knowledge of real life and,more importantly,in shaping the citizens of the soul of the moral consciousness of citizens and train with the United States of the spirit of a good citizen.Horace Mann from sports,intellectual,and political education,moral education,religious education,described several aspects of his country-based civic education under the concept of ideology.It plays an indispensable role in the unite states history.