美国是世界上实施公民教育最早的国家之一。公民教育在美国的历史发展中起到了非常重要的作用。尽管美国和中国在社会制度和意识形态上截然不同,但在社会经济全球化、科学技术日新月异的今天,研究美国公民教育对我国思想政治教育的改革和创新仍有着重要的借鉴意义。 The United States is one of the earliest countries in the world to implement civic education. Civic education played a very important role in the historical development of the United States. Although the United States and China are distinctly different in social system and ideology, it is still an important reference for us to study the civic education in the United States for the reform and innovation of our country’s ideological and political education today, with the social and economic globalization and the ever-changing science and technology.