The study on comparing the settings of middle school’s political courses between the East and the West

Ideological and Political Education is always the key course in China’s education system, which corresponding to in the west is generally called Civic Education. However, there are general stereotypes existing in both Ideological and Political Education in China and Civic Education in the west. This paper mainly studies the backgrounds of the courses of Ideological and Political Education in China by analyzing the standard of its revolution and innovation in detail. By comparing with Identity Education and Patriotism Education in the United States, Religious and Moral Education in the UK and Conflict Education in Germany, stress on Political Education in Western Civic Education and Moral Education in Ideological and Political Education in China. At last, this paper absorbed in the advantages of Civic Education offers some experience to the revolution of Ideological and Political Education in China.