文化教育应重视价值观念之差异

The Comparison of Values in Culture Education

文化教育的内容离不开根本的价值观念。从"文化"的内涵、文化教育的实践以及从中西文化的差异来看,价值观念始终是文化教育的重要内容。文化的内涵和文化模式的特殊性决定了价值观念在文化中的核心地位。相应的,立足于多元文化的教育,重点应放在不同文化系统中根本价值观念的分析与比较。思维方式是引领思想文化的内在动因,思维方式的独特性凸显了特定文化的个性特点。而思维方式恰恰以价值观念为根基。中国传统"天人合一"的思维方式,正是基于人本于自然、人与自然和谐统一的积极价值观念。总之,价值观念是文化的核心,价值观念的分析与比较是文化教育的中心环节。

The contents of culture education cannot be separated from fundamental values. Both the meaning of culture and the particularities of cultural patterns determine the values, the core of culture. Accordingly, in the course of culture education, we should focus on the analysis and comparison of the fundamental values in the different culture systems. Thought pattern motivates the ideological culture and its peculiarity sheds light on the characteristics of given cultures. Moreover, thought pattern is based on values. Traditional Chinese way of thinking highlights that man is an integral part of nature and that man and nature coexists harmoniously. In all, value is the core of culture, and the analysis of values is the key in the education of comparative cultures.