埃米泰·埃茨奥尼的品格教育思想及其启示

The thought of character education of Amitai Etzioni and its enlightenment

埃米泰·埃茨奥尼(Amitai Etzioni)是著名美籍以色列社会学家,他的品格教育思想对美国学校教育制度产生了深远影响。其品格教育思想强调学校的社群属性,旨在利用社群生活的丰富教育经验,发挥教师、学校管理者、同辈群体、学生家长等社群成员的共同教育力量,培养学生自律、同理心的品格。其“学校作为社群”的核心思想,对于我国学校道德教育具有启示意义。

Amitai Etzioni is a famous Israeli-American sociologist,his thought of character education has a great influence on American system of school education.Ezioni’s thought of character education emphasizes the community attributes of schools,aimed at cultivating students’self-discipline and empathy by using the rich educational experience of community life and the joint educational power of community members,such as teachers,school administrators,peer groups and parents.His core idea of“school as a community”provides some enlightenment for school moral education in China.