Junior high school textbooks in the core American values
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Core value is actually very common, and very specific, embodied in the way of daily life among ordinary people, and infiltration in their politics matter and political behavior among the public. Because of common, Chanel replica core values of public life, ordinary people did not become common sense, as all young students can learn in civic education curriculum in the basic knowledge.
Ben Xu, Professor, California St Mary College
In a clear core values, and does work in the society, daily life and political life is organically Overlapping. For example, the decent and moral customs and democratic political relationship can not be ignored, people's free will is the prerequisite for honesty, credit, tolerant, rational, caring, both with political significance of personal qualities. Therefore, the citizens "freedom" and political "democracy" with naturally become a core value. In daily life, people often value called "ethical practices", and Louis vuitton replica handbags in political life, put the value as "political norms." The difference is this: "of morality" is often unwritten norms, and "political norms" is written in principle, recorded in the majority of citizens are among the familiar political literature. In many countries, from primary and junior high school, these political literature to repeatedly appear in the textbooks, a youth civic education materials.
Any "value", there must be a "value concept" and a "principle of representation", which is that students learn basic writing in school, the teacher will tell them. For example, the "equality" is a value concept, for it, people can make different statements related to the principle, can be described as "people can not be equal" (and therefore male superiority, the official base of your people), can also be expressed as "everyone equality "(all people, regardless of gender, race, compete with jobs in human rights, human dignity, civil rights, legal treatment, and are equal.)
For any modern country, is the first of "ethical practices" and then "political norms". The traditional political system is always the first to establish. "Customary morality" is about the "good life" and the "good society" values, a way to gather people together in the collective value of bonds. As Caicos (JohnKekes) said, "good community cohesion, to long-term stability, mainly because members of society on how to treat each other, what kind of life regarded as Shang Hao, what is the benefit, what is the harm and other issues have considerable consensus. The consensus is the basis of common values and ethical practices reflect the shared values. "
If the "unwritten" is the customs value of the Designer replica handbags feature, then the "written" is the political value of the features. In modern countries, written not only written into the constitution and political norms, laws and regulations, but also save important historical documents, books being. These are the "text" form, from generation to generation reservations inherited. Learning, understanding, and the core values of the "political rules" is that each national part of civic education from childhood, and its one of the ways is to learn some of these basic "text."
For example, junior high school textbooks in the United States, we must study the political literature is the "Declaration of Independence" and the "Constitution," expressed the value of these two documents have already mentioned two characteristics: the value of the principles of the concept and value of the expression. "Declaration of Independence" in the beginning said: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness . " Here, "equality" is a value concept, and on the "equality" principle is the expression "all men are created equal."
Junior high school textbooks in the United States and some other historical documents, full text or excerpts, are a brief introduction to students in Introduction to the historical background and significance of core values. Some of these documents the United Kingdom because the United States is the first English settlers colonized people. These values form the minds of Americans the "good life." For example, in 1215 the British "Great Charter": "The literature says, the king and other citizens, must obey the law" (the value is the "rule of law"); 1639's "Connecticut's basic laws," which is the American colonies first Constitution (rule of law); 1689 "Glorious Revolution" of the "English Bill of Rights" (parliamentary power higher than the powers of the king); 1777, Jefferson drafted the "Virginia Religious Freedom Act" (Religious Freedom) ; George Mason, "objections to the constitution of government" to allow slavery in the United States opposed the constitution (freedom, equality); 1796 "Washington's resignation speech" (a politician of honor against the sectarian political parties, opposition life-long authoritarian); 1801 Jefferson's "inaugural speech": "America's honor is not in its hegemony, and in its freedom" (freedom); 1823's "Monroe Doctrine" (peace); 1848's "Seney Cafu Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution ", the first feminist of the Declaration of Rights (equality rights); 1863's" Emancipation Declaration "(equal rights); 1863 Lincoln" Gettysburg Address " , reiterated the U.S. republican ideals; Lincoln 1865 "Second Inaugural Address" (peace, unity), 1876's "Women's Emancipation Proclamation" (equal rights), and of course Dr. Martin Luther King's " I have a dream "and so on.
Speaking of core values, some people think is to do theoretical articles about highly theoretical, it is not. Core value is actually very common, and very specific, embodied in the way of daily life among ordinary people, and infiltration in their politics matter and political behavior among the public. Because of common, core values of public life, ordinary people did not become common sense, as all young students can learn in civic education curriculum in the basic knowledge.
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