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Practical Pathways for Integrating Fine Traditional Chinese Culture into Ideological and Political Education

王增福:中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的实践路径

· · Ideological & Political Education · Teaching and Research, 2024, no. 6 · 20 min read

Following the inherent compatibility between fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education, we should systematically excavate the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture for ideological and political education from the perspective of the Two Integrations [1]1 The Two Integrations (两个结合) refers to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the best of fine traditional Chinese culture., continuously enhance the fine traditional Chinese cultural literacy of the subjects of ideological and political education under the guidance of the responsibility to foster virtue and nurture people [2]2 Fostering virtue and nurturing people (立德树人) is the fundamental task of education in China, emphasizing moral education as the core., construct a curriculum chain for fine traditional Chinese culture education under the principle of audience differentiation, empower the dual carriers of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education with digital technology, and establish and improve an evaluation mechanism for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education with an effect-oriented approach. In this way, we can innovate the practical pathways for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, promote the inheritance and innovation of fine traditional Chinese culture while continuously unleashing its contemporary vitality, and advance the high-quality development and connotative improvement of ideological and political education in the New Era.

遵循中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育的内在契合性要求,应在“两个结合”视域中系统挖掘中华优秀传统文化的思想政治教育资源,在立德树人职责导向下持续提升思想政治教育主体的中华优秀传统文化素养,在分众化原则下构建中华优秀传统文化教育课程链,以数字技术赋能中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的双重载体,在效果导向中建立健全中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的评价机制,以此创新中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的实践路径,推动中华优秀传统文化的传承创新并持续迸发时代活力,推进新时代思想政治教育高质量发展、内涵式提升。

The comprehensive integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education is both an urgent requirement for inheriting and innovating fine traditional Chinese culture to manifest its contemporary value, and a necessary choice for enhancing the effectiveness of ideological and political education through the power of culture. Based on the inherent logical intersections between fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education in cultivating patriotic feelings for family and country, shaping sound personality, improving character and literacy, and strengthening cultural confidence, and in light of the new requirements of the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing people in the New Era as well as the cultural needs of educational subjects, we must answer the questions of what to integrate, who integrates, and how to integrate. On this basis, we should explore integration practices with a principled height, thereby fully releasing the educational function of fine traditional Chinese culture and promoting the high-quality development of ideological and political education.

中华优秀传统文化全方位融入思想政治教育,既是传承创新中华优秀传统文化以开显其时代价值的迫切要求,也是以文化之力增强思想政治教育实效性的应然之选。基于中华优秀传统文化同思想政治教育在涵养家国情怀、塑造健全人格、提升品格素养、坚定文化自信等方面的内在逻辑交集,结合新时代落实立德树人根本任务的新要求以及教育对象的文化需求,我们要回答好融入什么、谁来融入、怎么融入等问题,在此基础上探寻具有原则性高度的融入实践,以此充分释放中华优秀传统文化的育人功能,推动思想政治教育高质量发展。

I. Systematically Excavating the Resources of Fine Traditional Chinese Culture for Ideological and Political Education

一、系统挖掘中华优秀传统文化的思想政治教育资源

We should adopt a "targeted" mindset, enhance the pertinence of ideological and political education in drawing on the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture, take problems as the orientation, identify the points of convergence between fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education in terms of educational goals, content expression, value shaping, and method presentation, and systematically excavate the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture for ideological and political education. This requires basing ourselves on the new requirements that the Party's ideological work in the New Era places on ideological and political education, adhering to the Marxist worldview and methodology, constructing a New Era form of fine traditional Chinese culture, and answering the question of what kind of fine traditional Chinese culture should be integrated into ideological and political education.

我们应树立“靶向”思维,增强思想政治教育汲取中华优秀传统文化资源的针对性,以问题为导向,找准中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育在育人目标、内容表达、价值塑造、方法呈现等方面的契合点,系统挖掘中华优秀传统文化中的思想政治教育资源。这需要立足新时代党的意识形态工作对思想政治教育提出的新要求,坚持马克思主义世界观和方法论,构建中华优秀传统文化的新时代样态,回答好以什么样的中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的问题。

(I) Taking Adapted Marxism to the Chinese Context and the Needs of the Times as the Basic Guidance

(一)以中国化时代化的马克思主义为基本遵循

Based on the basic requirements for inheriting and innovating fine traditional Chinese culture in the New Era, and in conjunction with the goal setting of ideological and political education on the new journey [3]3 The new journey (新征程) refers to the journey of building a modern socialist China in all respects, starting from the 20th National Congress of the CPC in 2022., the interpretation of classics and the elucidation of textual meaning should take adapted Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times as the fundamental guidance, adhere to the systems concept, and deepen theoretical analysis. The ideas and concepts such as "the world is for all, the people are the foundation of the state, governing by virtue, reforming the old and establishing the new, appointing people on their merits, harmony between man and nature, ceaseless self-renewal, embracing all with virtue, honoring commitments and cultivating good neighborliness, and being kind to neighbors" [4]4 These are classical Chinese concepts drawn from various pre-Qin texts, often cited as the essence of traditional Chinese political and ethical thought., which were nurtured and generated in the life practice of the Chinese nation over more than five thousand years, are "highly compatible with the value propositions of scientific socialism" [5]5 This is a quotation from the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC.. This constitutes an important entry point for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. We must accurately find the points of connection, actively promote the organic integration of essential elements such as patriotism, democratic spirit, and moral literacy from fine traditional Chinese culture with the core socialist values, and carry out in-depth classical reading, theoretical inquiry, and academic interpretation oriented towards the contemporary needs of ideological and political education, continuously expanding the depth and breadth of ideological and political education resources.

立足新时代传承创新中华优秀传统文化的基本要求,结合新征程中思想政治教育的目标设定,释读经典的依据和文本意蕴的阐发应以中国化时代化马克思主义为根本指导,坚持系统观念,深化学理阐析。在中华民族五千多年生活实践孕育生成的中华优秀传统文化中氤氲化生的“天下为公、民为邦本、为政以德、革故鼎新、任人唯贤、天人合一、自强不息、厚德载物、讲信修睦、亲仁善邻”等思想理念,同“科学社会主义价值观主张具有高度契合性”,这构成了中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的重要切口。我们要精准找到对接点,积极推动中华优秀传统文化中爱国主义、民主精神、道德素养等精华要素与社会主义核心价值观有机结合,面向思想政治教育的当代需求开展深入的经典阅读、理论探究和学理阐释,不断扩展思想政治教育资源的深度和广度。

(II) Taking the Creative Transformation and Innovative Development of Fine Traditional Chinese Culture as the Key Pathway

(二)以中华优秀传统文化创造性转化和创新性发展为关键路径

Based on the new situation and new requirements of ideological and political education in the New Era, to fully leverage the educational functions of fine traditional Chinese culture in nourishing core values and cultivating individual moral development, it is necessary to carry out the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture through the intervention of modern enlightenment. This is because, from the perspective of cultural reproduction, only by adhering to the Marxist practical stance, respecting the continuity of cultural life created by life practice, rationally identifying the essence and dross of traditional culture, and on this basis absorbing the living elements that have been passed down across historical time and space, transforming them from potential static educational resources into actual dynamic educational outcomes, can we truly understand the profound implications of fine traditional Chinese culture as "the gene of the Chinese nation" and "the cultural root of the Chinese nation" [6]6 These phrases are commonly used by Xi Jinping to describe the foundational role of traditional culture for the Chinese nation.. From the perspective of the "ideological state apparatus" [7]7 "Ideological state apparatus" is a concept from Louis Althusser, referring to institutions (e.g., education, media) that disseminate the ruling ideology., although the pathways for generating and realizing the value of ideological and political education are diverse, cultivating and practicing mainstream values is its core orientation. Therefore, to meet the practical needs of ideological and political education in the New Era, promoting the "two creations" [8]8 "Two creations" (两创) is a shorthand for the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture. of fine traditional Chinese culture must be guided by the core socialist values.

立足新时代思想政治教育的新形势新要求,充分发挥中华优秀传统文化润泽核心价值观、涵养个体德性养成等教育功能,需要在现代性启蒙的介入中对中华优秀传统文化进行创造性转化创新性发展。因为从文化再生产的角度讲,只有坚守马克思主义实践立场,敬重由生活实践创生的文化生命连续性,理性辨识传统文化的精华与糟粕,在此基础上吸取跨越历史时空而赓续的鲜活元素,从潜在静态的育人资源转化为现实动态的育人成效,才能真正理解中华优秀传统文化作为“中华民族的基因”和“中华民族的文化根脉”的深刻蕴涵。从“意识形态国家机器”的视角来看,尽管思想政治教育价值的生成与实现进路是多元的,但培塑并践行主流价值观是其核心指向。所以,为满足新时代思想政治教育的现实需求,推动中华优秀传统文化“两创”要以社会主义核心价值观为统领。

(III) Taking the Combination with China's Specific Realities in the New Era as the Realistic Basis

(三)以结合新时代中国具体实际为现实依据

Excavating the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture for ideological and political education requires taking contemporary China as the reference, paying attention to the hot and difficult issues in ideological and political education, and using the expansion and innovation of traditional cultural resources in ideological and political education to drive theoretical and methodological innovation in ideological and political education. From the disciplinary perspective of ideological and political education, China's current specific realities can be understood from two dimensions: the reality of China's development's need for ideological and political education from the social philosophy dimension, and the reality of the growth needs of the subjects of ideological and political education from the Marxist human science dimension. The excavation of resources for ideological and political education in fine traditional Chinese culture must first be based on the practical needs of China's development, deeply integrating the wisdom of state governance, methods of investigating things and studying principles, and the concept of cultivating oneself, regulating the family, governing the state, and bringing peace to the world [9]9 This is a Confucian framework for moral and political cultivation, from the *Great Learning* (大学). from fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, thereby enhancing the contemporaneity and pertinence of ideological and political education. Drawing wisdom and strength for ideological and political education from fine traditional Chinese culture also requires fully considering and meeting the objective needs of educational subjects for ideological and political education, optimizing ideological and political education teaching with high-quality traditional cultural supply, and assisting in the value formation of educational subjects.

挖掘中华优秀传统文化中的思想政治教育资源,需以当下中国为观照,关注思想政治教育中的热点难点问题,以思想政治教育的传统文化资源的拓展创新,牵引思想政治教育的理论和方法创新。从思想政治教育的学科视域来审视,当前中国具体实际可从两个维度来理解:社会哲学维度下中国发展对思想政治教育需要的实际,马克思主义人学维度下思想政治教育对象成长需要的实际。中华优秀传统文化中思想政治教育资源的开掘,首先要立基于中国发展的现实需要,将中华优秀传统文化中的治国理政智慧、格物究理方法、修齐治平理念深度融入思想政治教育,提升思想政治教育的当代性和针对性。从中华优秀传统文化中汲取思想政治教育的智慧力量,还要充分考量并满足教育对象对思想政治教育的客观需要,以高质量的传统文化供给优化思想政治教育教学、助力教育对象的价值观养成。

II. Striving to Enhance the Fine Traditional Chinese Cultural Literacy of the Subjects of Ideological and Political Education

二、着力提升思想政治教育主体的中华优秀传统文化素养

The subjects of ideological and political education are "the initiators, organizers, and implementers of ideological and political education activities" [10]10 This is a standard definition from Chinese textbooks on ideological and political education.. Their theoretical level, moral cultivation, and spiritual realm directly determine the actual effect of ideological and political education, and play an irreplaceable leading role in the practical process of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. The interactive relationship between fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education can not only continuously inject rich cultural resources into ideological and political education in the New Era, but also provide methodological inspiration for enhancing the traditional cultural literacy of the subjects of ideological and political education.

思想政治教育主体是“思想政治教育活动的发动者、组织者和实施者”,其理论水平、道德修养和精神境界直接决定着思想政治教育的实际效果,在中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的实践过程中发挥着不可替代的主导作用。中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育之间的交互式关系,不仅可以为新时代的思想政治教育持续注入丰厚文化资源,而且能够为提升思想政治教育主体的传统文化素养提供方法论启示。

(I) Activating the Conscious Awareness of the Subjects of Ideological and Political Education

(一)激活思想政治教育主体的意识自觉

The subjects of ideological and political education are the first responsible persons for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, and also the "terminal" of the integration process. Educational subjects must, through academic research, theoretical elucidation, and popular dissemination of fine traditional Chinese culture, truly love, truly learn, and truly apply fine traditional Chinese culture, strive to achieve "recognition-timing-interpretation-demonstration" [11]11 This is a neologism in the Chinese text, likely meaning to first recognize (识) the culture, then understand its contemporary relevance (时), then explain it (释), and finally demonstrate it (示). of fine traditional Chinese culture, and set an example of fostering virtue through learning and unifying knowledge and action. Educational subjects must adhere to the worldview and methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, in objective examination, rational reflection, and comprehensive analysis, read and thoroughly grasp the essence of fine traditional Chinese culture, deeply study and thoroughly understand the values and moral norms it nurtures, "establish themselves by virtue, establish their learning by virtue, and teach by virtue" [12]12 This is a paraphrase of a common phrase in Chinese educational discourse, emphasizing the teacher's moral integrity., realize the reshaping of the fine traditional Chinese culture involved in ideological and political education from knowledge to value in the unity of knowledge and action, enhance their fine traditional Chinese cultural literacy through personal practice, and become role models and exemplars of educating people through culture in ideological and political education.

思想政治教育主体是中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的第一责任人,也是融入环节的“终端”。教育主体必须通过对中华优秀传统文化的学术化研究、学理化阐释和大众化传播,真爱、真学、真用中华优秀传统文化,努力做到对中华优秀传统文化的“识-时-释-示”,做立德为学、知行合一的表率。教育主体要坚持辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的世界观和方法论,在客观审视、理性反思和综合研判中,读懂吃透中华优秀传统文化的精髓,学深悟透其中涵养的价值理念和道德规范,“以德立身、以德立学、以德施教”,在知行合一中实现对思想政治教育所涵涉的中华优秀传统文化从知识到价值的重塑,在身体力行中提升中华优秀传统文化素养,做思想政治教育以文化人的榜样和示范。

(II) Improving the Training Mechanism of the Units Primarily Responsible for Ideological and Political Education

(二)健全思想政治教育主责单位的培养机制

The primary responsible units for ideological and political education are the leaders and organizers of such education, bearing the foremost responsibility for managing and guiding the subjects of ideological and political education, as well as guiding and serving its objects. These primary responsible units should form a diversified and normalized training mechanism for knowledge and competence in fine traditional Chinese culture, adopting multiple measures and all-round approaches to enhance the cultural consciousness, cultural initiative, and cultural confidence of the subjects of ideological and political education. The primary responsible units should conform to the contemporary trend of digitizing the carrier forms of fine traditional Chinese culture, actively constructing virtual teaching and research offices and smart education communities, promoting the transformation of teaching methods and the innovation of cultural dissemination methods. In particular, they should utilize new technological means and highly亲和力 [n13] and transmissible new media to visually display the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture, thereby meeting the needs of educational subjects for inheriting and integrating fine traditional Chinese culture. On this premise, they can achieve a deep integration of fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education.

思想政治教育主责单位是思想政治教育的领导者和组织者,承担着管理和指导思想政治教育主体、引导并服务思想政治教育对象的首要责任。思想政治教育主责单位要形成多元化、常态性的中华优秀传统文化知识与素养培训机制,多举措、全方位提升思想政治教育主体的文化自觉、文化主动和文化自信。主责单位要顺应中华优秀传统文化载体形式数字化的时代趋势,积极建设虚拟教研室、智慧教育共同体,推动教学方式变革和文化传播方式创新,特别是利用新型技术手段和极具亲和力、传播性的新型传播媒介对中华优秀传统文化资源进行可视化展示,满足教育主体对传承和融入中华优秀传统文化的需求,在此前提下,实现中华优秀传统文化和思想政治教育的深度融合。

(III) Strengthening Synergistic Coordination Among Multiple Social Subjects

(三)加强社会多元主体之间的协同联动

The integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education is a systematic project requiring the full-process, all-round participation of all members of society. Constructing a synergistic and coordinated educational mechanism among multiple subjects—family, school, and society—is a key measure for continuously enhancing the practical effectiveness of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Family, school, and society exhibit different operational logics in educational practice. We must promote the coordination and synergy of educational fields with different operational logics to achieve the optimal systemic effect of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. At the societal level, it plays a crucial role in providing policy guidance and institutional guarantees for enhancing the fine traditional Chinese cultural literacy of educational subjects. At the family level, children are nurtured and educated through the influence of family culture, such as good family rules, family precepts, and family traditions, enabling them to internalize respect for traditional culture in their hearts and externalize it in their actions. At the school level, it selects course content, case resources, and teaching methods compatible with fine traditional Chinese culture for the integrated construction of ideological and political courses, thereby improving the effectiveness and quality of these courses.

中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育是一项需要社会全体成员全过程全方位参与的系统工程,在家庭、学校和社会之间构建多元主体协同联动的育人机制,是持续提升中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的实际效果的关键举措。家庭、学校和社会在育人实践中呈现出不同的运作逻辑,我们要推动不同运作逻辑的教育场域的统筹和协同,以实现中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的系统最优效应。社会层面为提升教育主体的中华优秀传统文化素养起到了重要的政策性引领和制度化保障作用。家庭层面以良好的家规、家训、家风等家文化熏陶和教育子女,使其能够将礼敬传统文化内化于心、外化于行。学校层面为思政课一体化建设精选与中华优秀传统文化适配的课程内容、案例资源和授课方式,以提高思政课的效果和质量。

III. Adhering to the Principle of Audience Segmentation to Construct a Curriculum Chain for Fine Traditional Chinese Culture Education

三、坚持分众化原则构建中华优秀传统文化教育课程链

In the current practice of promoting the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into youth ideological and political education, problems exist such as "forced integration" that ignores differences among audiences and "loose connections" with insufficient articulation between educational stages. The targetedness and layering of integration need to be enhanced. Integration should be based on the principle of audience segmentation, grasping the cognitive characteristics, cultural needs, and behavioral patterns of educational objects at different educational stages. On the basis of grasping the holistic nature of fine traditional Chinese culture education and systematically excavating the ideological and political education resources within fine traditional Chinese culture, we should deepen the reform of ideological and political education, fully leverage the role of school curricula as an important carrier, and construct a curriculum chain for fine traditional Chinese culture that meets the needs of the times and educational requirements, thereby enhancing the targetedness and precision of fine traditional Chinese culture education.

当前在推动中华优秀传统文化融入青年思想政治教育的实践中,存在忽略受众差异的“硬融入”、各学段衔接不紧密的“松联结”等问题,融入的针对性和层次性有待增强。融入应基于分众化原则把握不同学段教育对象的心智特点、文化需求及行为规律,在把握中华优秀传统文化教育整体性以及系统挖掘中华优秀传统文化中思想政治教育资源的基础上深化思想政治教育改革,充分发挥学校课程这一重要载体的作用,建构满足时代需要和育人要求的中华优秀传统文化课程链,以增强中华优秀传统文化教育的针对性与精准性。

(I) Giving Full Play to the Role of Ideological and Political Courses as the Key Course and Main Channel

(一)发挥思政课关键课程的主渠道主阵地作用

We should "follow the laws of students' cognitive development and the laws of education and teaching, in accordance with the principles of integration, segmentation by educational stage, and orderly advancement," [n14] clarify the intrinsic connection between fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political courses, combine the different characteristics of knowledge, ability, and emotional goal-setting in ideological and political courses at each educational stage, and, guided by the concept of audience segmentation and based on the cognitive levels and growth patterns of students at each stage, integrate fine traditional Chinese culture into all stages of primary, secondary, and tertiary education. On the one hand, while distinguishing the layering of educational content, we should highlight focal points. According to the cognitive characteristics of students at each stage, we should continuously enrich and optimize the educational resources of fine traditional Chinese culture in the teaching of ideological and political courses at each stage. On the other hand, we should actively achieve organic articulation between stages while respecting differences. Ideological and political education is a sequential, spiraling process. We should combine the growth patterns and cognitive conditions of young people at each stage to promote the orderly, progressive integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, connecting the preceding and following stages.

我们应“遵循学生认知规律和教育教学规律,按照一体化、分学段、有序推进的原则”,厘清中华优秀传统文化与思政课的内在关联,结合各学段思政课知识、能力和情感目标设定的不同特点,在分众化理念指导下并根据各学段学生认知水平和成长规律将中华优秀传统文化融入大中小学各学段。一方面,在区分教育内容的层次性的同时突出侧重点。按照各学段学生认识特点,不断丰富和优化各学段思政课教学中的中华优秀传统文化教育资源。另一方面,积极实现各学段在尊重差异基础上的有机衔接。思想政治教育是一个前后相继、螺旋递进的过程,应结合青少年各阶段的成长规律和认知状况,推进中华优秀传统文化向思想政治教育的承上启下、有序进阶式融入。

(II) Optimizing the Theoretical and Practical Curriculum System for Fine Traditional Chinese Culture

(二)优化中华优秀传统文化理论与实践课程体系

The development of curricula for fine traditional Chinese culture education should maintain organic unity and dynamic balance between knowledge education and practical education, achieving mutual support and complementarity between theoretical courses focused on knowledge transmission and practical courses focused on behavioral acquisition. First, we must adhere to the intrinsic unity of national curricula, local curricula, and school-based curricula. At the national level, emphasis should be placed on developing popular reading materials and basic courses for all students. At the local level, general education courses on traditional culture reflecting regional characteristics should be offered. At the school level, distinctive school-based curricula should be developed based on the actual needs of students at different educational stages. Second, we should establish the concept of "grand ideological and political courses," [n15] innovate practical teaching methods, develop high-quality "second classrooms," "online classrooms," and "virtual classrooms," and build practical, experiential, and simulation bases for fine traditional Chinese culture tailored to local conditions. The rich character stories, vivid forms of expression, and lively historical images carried by fine traditional Chinese culture itself and these practice bases should be used to compensate for the abstract and static nature of theoretical teaching.

中华优秀传统文化教育课程开发应在知识教育与实践教育之间保持有机统一和动态平衡,实现以知识传授为主的理论课程和以习得行为为主的实践课程的彼此支撑、相得益彰。一要坚持国家课程、地方课程与校本课程的内在统一。国家层面注重开发面向全体学生的普及读物和基础课程,地方层面开设体现区域特色的传统文化通识课程,学校层面基于不同学段学生的实际需要开发特色校本课程。二要树立“大思政课”理念,创新实践教学方式方法,开发高质量的“第二课堂”“线上课堂”“虚拟课堂”,因地制宜打造中华优秀传统文化实践、体验、仿真基地,用中华优秀传统文化自身及实践基地所承载的丰富的人物典故、生动的表现形式和鲜活的历史形象弥补理论教学的抽象化与静态化的不足。

(III) Constructing a Curriculum-Based Ideological and Political System by Fields, Combining Professional Characteristics

(三)结合专业特色分领域构建课程思政体系

Promoting the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education is not solely the responsibility of ideological and political course teaching; specialized courses also need to "guard their own stretch of canal and cultivate their own field of responsibility." [n16] Ideological and political courses and curriculum-based ideological and political education should move in the same direction and resonate at the same frequency. Political nature is the fundamental attribute of ideological and political courses. Therefore, to achieve positive interaction between the two, it is necessary, while respecting the disciplinary and professional attributes and the specificity of educational goals of other courses, to adhere to upholding political nature as the fundamental direction and implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education [n17] as the ultimate goal. In accordance with the curriculum standards and training plans of different educational stages, the proportion of fine traditional Chinese culture in course content should be appropriately increased. The educational resources of curriculum-based ideological and political education should enrich the educational resources of ideological and political courses, unleashing the synergistic educational force of both. We must continuously optimize the forms of curriculum-based ideological and political education, strengthen the connectivity and interaction between in-school curricula at all stages, practice bases, and family education, and enhance students' sense of gain in studying and experiencing traditional culture within curriculum-based ideological and political education.

推进中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育,不单是思政课教学的责任,也需要专业课程守好一段渠、种好一份田。思政课程与课程思政应同向同行、同频共振。政治性是思政课的根本属性,因此,实现两者间的良性互动,就要在尊重其他课程的学科专业属性与育人目标特殊性的基础上,将坚持政治性作为根本方向、将落实立德树人作为最终目标,依照不同学段的课程标准和培养方案,适当增加中华优秀传统文化在课程内容中的占比,以课程思政的育人资源充盈思政课程的教育资源,发挥思政课程与课程思政的协同育人合力。要不断优化课程思政的育人形式,强化各学段校内课程与实践基地、家庭教育间的联通互动,提升学生在课程思政中研习和体悟传统文化的获得感。

IV. Digital Technology Empowering Carrier Innovation for Integrating Fine Traditional Chinese Culture into Ideological and Political Education

四、数字技术赋能中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的载体创新

Digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence have become important technological factors influencing the practice of ideological and political education. The integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education cannot be separated from corresponding carriers, such as technological carriers and environmental carriers. The 20th National Congress of the CPC proposed to "advance the digitalization of education." [n18] We should act in accordance with this trend, using digital technology empowerment to drive innovation in technological carriers and environmental carriers for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, thereby promoting the improvement of quality and efficiency in ideological and political education.

大数据、云计算、区块链、人工智能等数字技术已成为影响思想政治教育实践的重要技术因素。中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育离不开相应的载体,如技术载体、环境载体等。党的二十大提出要“推进教育数字化”,我们要顺势而为,以数字技术赋能来推动中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的技术载体创新和环境载体创新,从而促进思想政治教育提质增效。

(I) Innovating Digital Technology Carriers for Integrating Fine Traditional Chinese Culture into Ideological and Political Education

(一)创新中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的数字技术载体

To promote the deep integration of fine traditional Chinese culture and ideological and political education, it is necessary to expand the spatiotemporal domains and media carriers of ideological and political education, constructing a "new media + ideological and political education" integration form based on digital technology, thereby optimizing the technological carriers for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Integration can leverage the advantages of digital technology in storage, rich presentation, efficient sharing, and instant feedback, thereby driving innovation in technological carriers for digital technology to empower the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education.

推动中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育深度融合,需要拓展思想政治教育的时空领域和媒介载体,以数字技术为依托构建“新媒介+思想政治教育”的融合形式,以此优化中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的技术载体。融入可以发挥数字技术存储、丰富呈现、高效共享、即时反馈的技能优势,进而推动数字技术赋能中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的技术载体创新。

Digital technology provides technical support for the storage of digital resources for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Integration should promote cross-field cooperation between the digital technology industry and the cultural industry, mobilize the enthusiasm of cultural institutions, cultural enterprises, various schools, and other entities to participate in the research, development, and application of cultural digitalization technology, and promote the construction of digital resources for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Integration should actively utilize digital technology to transform and innovate the presentation methods of fine traditional Chinese culture. Through advanced technical means such as artistic restoration and physical restoration, fine traditional Chinese culture should be integrated into modern media such as audio, images, animations, and short videos, making fine traditional Chinese culture dynamic and alive, thereby enhancing the practical effectiveness of ideological and political education in nurturing talent.

数字技术为中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育数字资源的存储提供了技术支撑。融入要推进数字技术产业和文化产业的跨领域合作,调动文化机构、文化企业、各类学校等主体参与文化数字化技术研发和应用的积极性,推动中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的数字化资源建设。融入要积极利用数字技术对中华优秀传统文化的呈现方式进行变革创新,通过艺术复原、实体复原等先进技术手段,将中华优秀传统文化融入声音、图片、动画、短视频等现代媒体,让中华优秀传统文化动起来、活起来,进而提升思想政治教育的育人实效性。

Digital technology can coordinate multiple subjects to jointly develop resources for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, using a platform format to consolidate academic, social and practical resources from all sides, thereby promoting the sharing of high-quality educational resources. It can achieve precise adjustment in the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Digital technology can instantly collect data on the integration, thus presenting the progress of integration in real time; on the basis of gathering massive data, it can monitor the integration process through real-time analysis and dynamic interaction; it can conduct intelligent analysis of the integration process based on models, and promote optimization of the integration process through timely feedback of evaluation results.

数字技术可以协同多元主体,共同开展中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育资源的建设,以平台形式整合学术、社会和实践各方面资源,促进优质教育资源共享。实现中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的精准调适。数字技术可以对融入数据进行即时采集,从而实时呈现融入进展情况;可以在收集海量数据基础上,通过即时分析和动态交互来监测融入过程;可以依据模型对融入过程进行智能分析,通过及时反馈评价结果来促进融入过程的优化。

(II) Improving the Digital Environmental Carrier for Integrating Fine Traditional Chinese Culture into Ideological and Political Education

(二)改善中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的数字环境载体

Ideological and political education needs to be carried out in a specific environmental field. Digital technology has become the most important environmental factor affecting students’ growth and development, gradually becoming the most direct and convenient carrier for promoting the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture with ideological and political education. For digital technology to empower the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, there must be suitable digital technology as support. The government should further increase investment in the research and development of digital technology, and through technological innovation, strive to break through the software and hardware technical difficulties in the integration. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of digital infrastructure in schools, establish a data foundation for digital technology to empower the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, uniformly plan data standards and technical architecture, and promote the co-construction and sharing of the digital foundation.

思想政治教育需要在特定的环境场域中展开,数字技术成为影响学生成长成才的最重要环境因素,逐渐成为推动中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育融合的最为直接和便捷的载体。数字技术赋能中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育,必须有适配的数字化技术作支撑。政府要进一步加大数字化技术的研发力度,通过技术创新,着力突破融入中的软硬件技术难题。要加大学校的数字化基础设施的建设力度,建立数字技术赋能中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的数据基座,统一规划数据标准和技术架构,促进数字基础基座的共建共享。

The deep involvement of digital technology has expanded the spatial form of ideological and political education from the past single-dimensional space to an aggregated space integrating online virtual space and offline physical space. This new spatial form provides more possibilities for the digital transformation of ideological and political education. Under the effect of the Internet, the Internet of Things, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, the scenarios for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education have been greatly enriched. Through digital means such as virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, immersive cultural experiences are provided for educational subjects, enabling fine traditional Chinese culture to “speak” and “communicate” before educational subjects, enhancing the sense of participation and experience of educational subjects while adhering to the “unity of the virtual and the real.”

数字技术的深度介入使思想政治教育的空间形态从过去的单质化空间拓展为线上虚拟空间和线下物理空间相融合的聚合性空间,这种新的空间形态为思想政治教育的数字化转型提供了更多的可能性。在互联网、物联网、虚拟现实和增强现实技术的作用下,中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的场景得到极大丰富。通过虚拟现实和增强现实技术等数字化手段,为教育对象提供沉浸式文化体验,使中华优秀传统文化在教育对象面前“会说话”“能交流”,在坚持“虚实一体”中提升教育对象的参与感和体验感。

Make full use of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cloud computing, and blockchain to digitize the resources of fine traditional Chinese culture, create diverse and interconnected electronic databases of cultural resources, and establish corresponding technical norms and management mechanisms for collection, storage, dissemination, and application, thereby creating the basic prerequisite for the digital integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. In the process of promoting the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, we must improve the normative institutional system for the use of digital technology, create a safe campus cultural space, provide safe and stable technical support for cross-temporal and cross-spatial interaction and exchange of campus culture, and ensure that campus culture is always a cultural form that is steeped in fine traditional Chinese culture and promotes mainstream values.

充分利用人工智能、虚拟现实、云计算、区块链等数字技术实现中华优秀传统文化资源的数字化,打造类型多样、互联互通的文化资源电子数据库并建立起相应的采集、存储、传播、应用等技术规范和管理机制,从而为中华优秀传统文化向思想政治教育的数字化融入创设基本前提。在推进中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的过程中,我们要完善数字技术运用的规范制度体系,创建安全的校园文化空间,为校园文化的跨时空互动和交流提供安全稳定的技术支持,确保校园文化始终是浸润中华优秀传统文化、宣传主流价值观的文化形态。

V. Establishing and Improving the Evaluation Mechanism for Integrating Fine Traditional Chinese Culture into Ideological and Political Education

五、建立健全中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的评价机制

We must fully recognize the significant meaning and far-reaching impact of the deep integration of fine traditional Chinese culture with ideological and political education. By deepening top-level institutional design and establishing a scientific and reasonable effectiveness evaluation and feedback mechanism, we ensure the systematization and normalization of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Particular attention should be paid to the diversification of evaluation subjects, the continuity of the evaluation process, and the scientization of evaluation indicators. Through evaluation, we identify problems, find gaps, and test the efficacy and effectiveness of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education.

我们要充分认识中华优秀传统文化与思想政治教育深度交融的重要意义和深远影响,通过深化顶层制度设计,建立科学合理的成效评价与效果反馈机制,确保中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的系统化、常态化。尤其要重视评价主体的多元化、评价过程的持续性和评价指标的科学化。通过评价发现问题,查找差距,检测中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的效能效果。

(I) Evaluation Subjects Reflecting Diversity, Multi-Directionality, and Multi-Capability

(一)评价主体体现多元、多向与多能

Evaluation subjects include subjects from management, teaching, society, propaganda, and other aspects, encompassing both top-down and bottom-up directions. They bear responsibilities such as political orientation, value guidance, and law guidance. By strictly defining the scope, methods, and functions of evaluation subjects, the effect of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education is enhanced. The comprehensiveness of evaluation depends on the degree to which evaluation subjects conform to the principle of “unity of dominance and subjectivity.” Through the combination of other-evaluation and self-evaluation, the unity of top-down dominance and bottom-up subjectivity is achieved, promoting mutual improvement in teaching and learning, and mutual promotion in management and education. Therefore, evaluation subjects must possess the ideological and political literacy of strong politics, deep feelings, new thinking, broad vision, strict self-discipline, and upright character, and objectively and scientifically evaluate the content, methods, and effects of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education.

评价主体包括管理、教学、社会、宣传等多方面的主体,包含自上而下和自下而上两个向度,他们承担着政治定向、价值引领、规律导引等职责,通过严格界定评价主体的范围、方式和功能提升中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的效果。评价的全面性如何有赖于评价主体符合“主导性和主体性相统一”原则的程度。通过他评和自评的结合实现自上而下的主导性和自下而上的主体性的统一,促进教学相长、管教相促。因此,评价主体要具备政治强、情怀深、思维新、视野广、自律严、人格正的思政素养,客观科学地评价中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的内容、方式和效果。

(II) Evaluation Indicators Being Full-Factor, Dynamic, and Differentiated

(二)评价指标全要素、动态化与差异化

The effect of ideological and political education is “the product of the practical activities of ideological and political education, and also the result of the influence of various subjective and objective factors.” Actively constructing an evaluation-feedback mechanism aims to test the actual effect of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education. Therefore, when selecting evaluation indicators for the effect of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, an indicator system should be designed that is complete in elements, dynamically adjustable, capable of classification and identification, and scientifically qualitative. According to the characteristics of educational subjects, design an indicator system with complete elements. At the macro level, this includes the software and hardware facilities for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, such as virtual network facilities, moral fashion transmission and learning, etc.; at the micro level, it should include educational subjects’ cognition of fine traditional Chinese culture, the perspective of a grand historical view for examining social issues, the consciousness to consciously resist erroneous trends of thought such as historical nihilism [19]19 Historical nihilism (历史虚无主义) is a term used in Chinese political discourse to criticize attempts to reinterpret or deny the official narrative of Chinese history, particularly the history of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese revolution., and the sense of responsibility for building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, etc.

思想政治教育的效果是“思想政治教育教育实践活动的产物,也是各种主客观因素影响下的结果”。积极构建评价-反馈机制,其目的在于检验中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的实际效果。因此,在选取中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育效果的评价指标时,应设计出要素齐全、动态调整、分类识别、科学定性的指标体系。根据教育对象的特征设计要素齐全的指标体系,在宏观上包括中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的软硬件设施,如虚拟网络设施、道德风尚传习等;在微观上则应包括教育对象对中华优秀传统文化的认知情况,审视社会问题的大历史观视域,自觉抵制历史虚无主义等错误思潮,建设中华民族现代文明的担当意识等。

(III) The Evaluation Process Reflecting the Full Lifecycle of Education

(三)评价过程彰显教育的全生命周期性

According to the educational laws of educational subjects, construct a whole-process evaluation mechanism for educational subjects before, during, and after education. At the front end of education, determine the content of fine traditional Chinese culture that meets the spiritual needs of educational subjects, extensively collect issues that educational subjects are concerned about and data that can reflect their understanding of fine traditional Chinese culture, in order to make a preliminary evaluation of the learning situation. During the educational process, pay attention to recording educational subjects’ problem awareness and degree of understanding of fine traditional Chinese culture, and timely adjust the content and methods of integration. At the later stage of education, focus on analyzing educational subjects’ cognitive difficulties and their methods of analyzing and solving problems, evaluate whether educational subjects can improve their own critical reflective ability through active participation in the evaluation process, thereby deepening the educational content, and finally form periodic evaluation reports to determine whether the goal of integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education has been achieved.

根据教育对象的受教育规律,建构教育对象教育前、教育中、教育后的全过程评价机制。在教育前端确定满足教育对象精神需求的中华优秀传统文化内容,广泛收集教育对象关注关心的问题以及能反映教育对象对中华优秀传统文化了解状况的相关数据,以期对学情做好初步评价。在教育过程中,注意记录教育对象对中华优秀传统文化的问题意识和理解程度,适时调整融入的内容和方法。在教育后期则要侧重分析教育对象的认知难点和分析解决问题的方式方法,评估教育对象是否能够通过主动参与评价过程提高自身批判性反思能力,从而深化教育内容,最终形成周期性的评价报告,以此判定中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育的目标是否达成。

(IV) The “Evaluation-Feedback” Keeping Pace with the Times and Being Dynamically Updated

(四)“评价-反馈”与时俱进并动态更新

We must objectively view the problems existing in the integration, accurately identify the gap between the actual integration effect and the expected integration goal, grasp the difficulties and pain points of the integration, dynamically adjust the integration content, and timely optimize the integration methods. At the same time, we must summarize the laws of the integration effect evaluation mechanism with an attitude of keeping pace with the times, organically adjust the realization methods of the evaluation mechanism according to the educational goals, use the latest achievements of digital technology to establish qualitative goals for quantitative evaluation and provide quantitative materials for qualitative evaluation, thereby giving full play to the actual function of the integration effect evaluation mechanism. In the repeated practice of evaluation and feedback, we must continuously provide more standardized and institutionalized means for integrating fine traditional Chinese culture into ideological and political education, enhance educational subjects’ cultural identity and cultural confidence, and better realize the goal of ideological and political education to forge souls and educate people.

我们要客观看待融入中存在的问题,精准判别实际融入效果同预期融入目标之间的差距,把握融入的难点、痛点,动态调整融入内容、及时优化融入方法。同时,要以与时俱进的态度总结融入效果评价机制的规律,根据育人目标有机调整评价机制的实现方式,利用数字技术的最新成果,为量化评价建立质性目标,为质性评价提供量化材料,由此充分发挥融入效果评价机制的实际功能。我们要在评价反馈的反复实践中,不断为中华优秀传统文化融入思想政治教育提供更具规范化、制度化的手段,提升教育对象的文化认同与文化自信,更好实现思想政治教育的铸魂育人目标。

(Author’s bio: Wang Zengfu, Dean and Professor of the School of Marxism, Shandong Normal University)

(作者简介:王增福,山东师范大学马克思主义学院院长、教授)

Online editor: Tongxin

网络编辑:同心

Notes

  1. The Two Integrations (两个结合) refers to the integration of the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the best of fine traditional Chinese culture. ↩
  2. Fostering virtue and nurturing people (立德树人) is the fundamental task of education in China, emphasizing moral education as the core. ↩
  3. The new journey (新征程) refers to the journey of building a modern socialist China in all respects, starting from the 20th National Congress of the CPC in 2022. ↩
  4. These are classical Chinese concepts drawn from various pre-Qin texts, often cited as the essence of traditional Chinese political and ethical thought. ↩
  5. This is a quotation from the report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC. ↩
  6. These phrases are commonly used by Xi Jinping to describe the foundational role of traditional culture for the Chinese nation. ↩
  7. "Ideological state apparatus" is a concept from Louis Althusser, referring to institutions (e.g., education, media) that disseminate the ruling ideology. ↩
  8. "Two creations" (两创) is a shorthand for the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture. ↩
  9. This is a Confucian framework for moral and political cultivation, from the *Great Learning* (大学). ↩
  10. This is a standard definition from Chinese textbooks on ideological and political education. ↩
  11. This is a neologism in the Chinese text, likely meaning to first recognize (识) the culture, then understand its contemporary relevance (时), then explain it (释), and finally demonstrate it (示). ↩
  12. This is a paraphrase of a common phrase in Chinese educational discourse, emphasizing the teacher's moral integrity. ↩
  13. Affinity or approachability, a quality of being warm and accessible that facilitates communication and acceptance.
  14. Quotation from the *Guiding Outline for Implementing the Project of Inheriting and Developing Fine Traditional Chinese Culture* (2017).
  15. A concept emphasizing that ideological and political education should not be confined to formal classroom courses but should utilize all social resources and practical activities as educational platforms.
  16. A metaphorical expression from a 2016 national conference on ideological and political work in higher education, meaning that each course and teacher has a specific responsibility for moral education within its own domain.
  17. The fundamental task of education in China, meaning to cultivate moral character and nurture talent.
  18. Quotation from the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC (2022).
  19. Historical nihilism (历史虚无主义) is a term used in Chinese political discourse to criticize attempts to reinterpret or deny the official narrative of Chinese history, particularly the history of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese revolution. ↩