Moral education pays attention to the obedience of the educated and the punishment of moral education activities, emphasizes the traditional indoctrination of moral education content, and is characterized by authoritative management and indoctrination of behavioral norms.
The basic feature of modern cognitive moral education curriculum is inquiry. The process of moral education is to encourage students to carry out continuous critical inquiry, teach students how to conduct moral analysis, promote the autonomy, self-restraint or spiritual freedom of thinking, cultivate students' moral judgment and moral understanding, and pay more attention to students' independent thinking.
Characteristics of moral education curriculum content;
(1) Residence:
Follow the life logic of students at different stages, take students' real life as the main source, and take theme activities closely related to students' life as the carrier.
(2) integration:
The course content of each period strives to embody multiple values and integrate the contents of various disciplines. Morality and life include moral education, scientific education, social and cultural education and many other aspects.
(3) Biological:
The course content advocates starting from students' growth, development and life reality, starting from the present situation, problems and needs of students' ideological and moral development, and respecting students' existing life experience.
(4) Openness:
The whole life world gradually expanded for students has expanded from closed textbooks to all meaningful and interesting topics for students.