新形势下加强和改进思想政治教育,巩固马克思主义在我国意识形态领域的指导地位,需要以世界性的眼光认识和思考问题。西方学者关于我国思想政治教育的相关研究成果1,在一定程度上反映了国际社会的基本认识理路,有必要作为我们反观和反思自身的“他者视域”加以研究。西方学界对我国德育问题的专门研究始于近代。其早期研究多以宗教为主,数量较少2。20世纪70年代以来,随着中国社会的快速发展,中国在世界舞台上扮演愈发重要的角色,西方学者对我 Under the new situation, strengthening and improving ideological and political education and consolidating the guiding position of Marxism in the field of ideology in our country require understanding and thinking from a global perspective. The results of western scholars’ research on the ideological and political education in our country1, to a certain extent, reflect the basic understanding of the international community and are necessary to study as the “other’s perspective” of our own reflection and reflection. The western academia specializes in the issue of moral education in our country started in modern times. Most of its early studies were mainly religious, with a small number. Since the 1970s, with the rapid development of Chinese society, China has played an increasingly important role in the world arena.