Basic meaning:
1. Moral education in a broad sense refers to all activities that have a purposeful and planned impact on social members politically, ideologically and morally, including social moral education, community moral education, school moral education and family moral education.
2. Moral education in a narrow sense refers to school moral education. Moral education in schools refers to an educational activity in which educators exert ideological, political and moral influence on the educated purposefully, systematically and according to certain social or class requirements, and through the active understanding, experience and practice of the educated, they form the moral quality required by certain society and class, that is, the activities in which educators cultivate the moral quality of the educated purposefully.
Moral education mode
Subjective moral education model: this is a moral education model based on moral cognition. The theoretical assumption is that students are the main body of moral education, and moral education should give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of teachers and students, especially to recognize and respect students' subjective status and personality, and cultivate students to become social subjects with "subjective moral qualities" such as autonomy and initiative.
Activity moral education mode: This is a moral education mode focusing on moral behavior training. The theoretical assumption is that morality is a real human activity, and individual's independent activity is both the purpose and the means of moral education.
Emotional moral education mode: this is a moral education mode with emotion as the core. According to this model, attention is the integrated structure of the knowledge line with emotion as the core, which has rich levels. The educational value of "learning to care" lies in guiding students from primitive and spontaneous feelings of "care" to rational and conscious feelings of "care", forming the quality of "care" from responsibility, and then laying the foundation for the development of the whole virtue.