Comparative Study on Citizenship Education Between China and America

Civic education is an important way to help citizens identify themselves with the nation and pool positive energy to boost the whole nation and also a systematic project usually integrated into the national education plan at different stages and levels. China's fast economic development and sharp social transformation asks for a corresponding development in civic education. America enjoys a long history and wealth in its civic education, which can provide some lessons for China to learn from. Thus this paper compares and analyzes the contents and presenting forms of the civic education in the textbooks of the two countries' primary education. It intends to give some enlightenment to Chinese civic education.