Author(s)

Jihai Shi

Education Scientific Research Institute, Binzhou, China.

Education’s essence is life education and its core is life development. Meanwhile, morality serves as an important component of life, and the development of human life is inseparable from morality. Naturally, life education and moral education are both essential and indispensable and in turn moral life education becomes the inevitable logical choice in life education. The moral life education in schools for the Mental Retardation, based on mentally retarded children’s need for life development and guided by moral education, fully carries out education of life awareness, life meaning and life value on the basis of cultivating students’ survival skill. However, at present, the moral life education in schools for the Mental Retardation tends to neglect students’ life awareness, life freedom and their spiritual life while overemphasizing the cultivation of survival skills. In view of the status quo, on the premise of ensuring the subjectivity of moral life education, only by combining classroom education with education outside class and securing cooperation between school and families can students’ life awareness be gradually aroused and moral life education enjoy harmonious development. The moral life education in schools for the Mental Retardation is a matter of mentally retarded children’s dignity, meaning and value of existence. Therefore, it is of great significance to accurately grasp moral life education’s connotation, existing problems and corresponding strategies, contributing to students’ integrating into the society smoothly.

School for the Mental Retardation, Moral Life, Education, Connotation, Problems and Strategies

Shi, J. (2017) Research on the Connotation of Moral Life Education in Schools for the Mental Retardation, Existing Problems and Corresponding Strategies. Creative Education, 8, 2508-2514. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.815173.