Moral education functions include social functions (political, economic and cultural functions); Individual sexual function; Educational function.
The concept of moral education:
Moral education is an educational activity that educators organize an additional environment suitable for the moral growth of moral education objects and promote their continuous construction and promotion in morality, ideology and politics.
The function of moral education:
Social function: It mainly refers to the political, economic and cultural functions that school moral education has an impact on social politics, economy and culture.
Political function: Moral education serves the class struggle of social classes and is also reflected in the democracy, perfection and reform of the national political and legal system.
Economic function: School moral education has an important impact on economic development by providing workers with certain moral quality.
Cultural function: the role of school moral education in a certain social and cultural development process and the role of school moral education in different cultural forms.
School moral education itself is a cultural element with motive force or hematopoiesis mechanism. It is not only influenced by specific culture, but also spreads national culture in value, ethics and politics, so that the object of moral education can complete the culture of the younger generation.
At the same time, it has the creative ability of ethics and political culture. Among the social functions, the cultural function of moral education is the intermediary between the political function and the economic function of school moral education.
5. Individual sexual function, including individual moral development function, individual intelligence development function and individual aesthetic development function.
6. Educational function
7. Guiding function: Guiding function means that moral education has the function of pointing, choosing and regulating behavior in school education. It can not only guide individuals as a group, but also guide the educational activities of schools and classes. Moral education is the guiding role and guarantee role in the middle stage of every education, so schools should put moral education in the first place.
The purpose of school education is to train successors of socialist construction. In talent training, one of the main problems to be solved in moral education is people's political direction, that is, what road to take and who to serve. Moral education also plays a directional role in determining the nature of schools. Therefore, school education should put moral education first.
8. Motivation function: Motivation function refers to that moral education can trigger, strengthen and dominate people's psychological and behavioral activities. Ideological morality is the soul of human beings, and it is the spiritual power to understand human behavior and influence people's wisdom and ability.
A student with correct political requirements and life goals will be aggressive, not afraid of difficulties and will struggle. Armed with this ideology and a clear political direction, students' positions, viewpoints and methods will be applied in practice and their spirit will be transformed into material strength.
9. Goal function: The goal of school education consists of the training direction of the educated and the quality standards to be achieved by their growth and development. Taking primary and secondary schools as an example, its educational goal is to comprehensively implement the educational policy, improve the education quality of girls' schools, and make students develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way and become ideals.
Cultivate moral, educated and disciplined talents for socialist construction. The elements mentioned here are interrelated and mutually restricted, and together they form a complete educational target structure. Any problem or weakening of any link will affect the function of the whole structure.