时髦主义可算是美国教育的致命病症。从美国教育史上来看,虽然我们在普及教育和对身心有缺陷儿童的教育方面取得了某些成就,但是,近年来我们曾经提出过的许多时髦口号,大部分都落空了。如程序教学,新数学课程,开放教育等等,都是这样。时髦主义对学校的道德教育也有着相当的影响,只是相比之下不象其他方面明显罢了。 所谓道德教育,就是指学校如何帮助青少年发展成为道德上成熟的成人,帮助这些青少年学生按一定的道德规范去思考,去行动。学校里的道德教育一般并不正式地写入教学大纲或教学计划。道德教育的许多方面实际上都可以列入潜课程的范围。而且,虽然道德教育的 Fashionism can be regarded as a fatal illness in education in the United States. From the perspective of the history of education in the United States, although we have made some achievements in popularizing education and educating children with physical and mental disabilities, many of the most fashionable slogans we have proposed in recent years have failed. Such as procedural teaching, new mathematics courses, open education, and so on. Fashionism also has a considerable influence on the moral education of schools, but it is not as obvious as other aspects. The so-called moral education refers to how schools can help young people develop into ethically mature adults and help these young students to think and act according to certain moral norms. Moral education in schools is generally not officially written into the syllabus or teaching plan. Many aspects of moral education can actually be included in the scope of latent courses. And, although moral education