论公民教育的四大“误区”

On the Four Errors of Citizenship Education in China

长期以来,我国公民教育存在四大误区:在公民及公民教育的理解上,将其视为西方资本主义的专利;在公民教育目标上,将其定义为为国家培养"合格公民"的抽象概念;在公民教育内容上,认为公民教育就是思想政治教育、道德教育;在公民教育的实践策略中,一直沿用灌输为主的教学方式。这些误区容易使公民教育教条化、简单化、一般化,体现不出公民教育的本质特征。因此,只有走出这四大误区,才能复归公民教育本意。

For a long time, there are four errors in citizenship education of china. Firstly, on the understanding of citizen and citizenship education, citizenship is considered unique to Western capitalism; secondly, on the goal of citizenship education, it is defined as abstract concept of training ＂qualified citizens＂; thirdly, on the citizenship education contents, citizenship education is the ideological and political education, moral education; fourthly, in the practice of citizenship education strategy, it has been adopted to instill based on teaching methods. Obviously, this is easy to make citizenship education dogmatic, simplistic, generalized, which can＇t not embody the essential characteristics of citizenship education. Therefore, in order to revert to citizenship education and promote the development of citizenship education we must come out of these errors.