Empowering the Construction of the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” with Red Study Tours

In September 2024, in his important speech at the National Education Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the “ideological and political leading power” that an educational powerhouse under socialism with Chinese characteristics should possess. The *Guangming Daily* “Education Weekly” recently conducted an in-depth discussion around this topic. After reading it, the author felt deep resonance and generated the following reflection: red study tours can enable students to understand the national conditions, love the motherland, broaden their horizons, and increase their knowledge; they can also help improve their sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit, and practical ability, thereby achieving the integration of the ideological and political course “taught in the classroom” and “taught in social life.” Forging ideological and political leading power, empowering the construction of the “grand ideological and political course” with red study tours is of crucial importance.

2024年9月，习近平总书记在全国教育大会上的重要讲话中提出了中国特色社会主义教育强国所应具有的“思政引领力”。光明日报《教育周刊》近日围绕这一话题进行了深入探讨。笔者读后深感共鸣，并产生思考：红色研学能让学生了解国情、热爱祖国、开阔眼界、增长知识，还能帮助其提高社会责任感、创新精神、实践能力，从而实现思政课“在课堂上讲”与“在社会生活中讲”的贯通。锻造思政引领力，以红色研学赋能“大思政课”建设至关重要。

Accurately Understanding the Necessity of Empowering the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” with Red Study Tours

准确认识红色研学赋能“大思政课”的必要性

Red study tours refer to organizing students to visit red resource venues such as revolutionary sites and memorial halls, and through methods such as field investigation and personal experience, to learn about the glorious course and great achievements of the Communist Party of China as well as the lofty spirit of the revolutionary forebears.

红色研学是指组织学生参观革命遗址、纪念馆等红色资源场馆，通过实地考察、亲身体验等方式学习中国共产党的光辉历程、伟大成就以及革命先辈的崇高精神。

Red study tours can enrich the teaching form of the “grand ideological and political course,” making the educational content more intuitive and vivid. They can not only compensate for the shortcomings of the traditional classroom but also allow students to perceive and understand the revolutionary spirit in practice, achieving complementarity of educational content.

红色研学能丰富“大思政课”的教学形态，使教育内容更加直观生动，不仅能弥补传统课堂的不足，还能让学生在实践中感悟和理解革命精神，实现教育内容的互补。

Red study tours focus on students’ experience and feelings. Through methods such as situational teaching and interactive participation, they enhance the appeal and感染力 of education and improve educational effectiveness.

红色研学注重学生的体验和感受，通过情境教学、互动参与等方式，增强了教育的吸引力和感染力，提高了教育实效。

At the same time, red study tour activities can promote students’ all-round development, cultivating their patriotic sentiments, collectivist spirit, and sense of social responsibility. This is consistent with the goal of the “grand ideological and political course,” which places equal emphasis on students’ knowledge learning and the cultivation of their values.

同时，红色研学活动能够促进学生全面发展，培养其爱国情怀、集体主义精神和社会责任感，这与“大思政课”关注学生知识学习和培养学生价值观并重的目标一致。

Scientifically Grasping the Regular Features of Empowering the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” with Red Study Tours

科学把握红色研学赋能“大思政课”的规律特征

As an important practical method of ideological and political education, red study tours both adhere to taking students as the center, giving play to students’ subjectivity, and shaping students’ values, and adhere to taking teachers as the lead, mobilizing teachers’ initiative, and enhancing teachers’ sense of responsibility, exhibiting the following features:

红色研学作为一种重要的思政教育实践方式，既坚持以学生为中心、发挥学生主体性、塑造学生价值观，又坚持以教师为主导、调动教师积极性、增强教师责任感，表现出如下特征：

Planting the seeds of truth, goodness, and beauty in students’ hearts through value guidance and spiritual edification, and guiding students to fasten the “first button of life.” [1]1 “Fastening the first button of life” is a metaphor frequently used by Xi Jinping to emphasize the importance of forming correct values in youth, analogous to the idea that if the first button of a shirt is fastened wrong, all the rest will be wrong. Red study tours are not merely the transmission of knowledge; more importantly, they are the shaping of values and edification at the spiritual level. Through in-depth study of revolutionary history, they can help students establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and value system, and enhance their sense of national pride and national honor.

以价值引领与精神熏陶在学生心灵中埋下真善美的种子、引导学生扣好人生“第一粒扣子”。红色研学不仅仅是知识的传递，更重要的是价值观的塑造和精神层面的熏陶。通过对革命历史的深入学习，能够帮助学生树立起正确的世界观、人生观和价值观，增强民族自豪感与国家荣誉感。

Helping students better understand history and feel the revolutionary spirit through situational experiential learning. Red study tours are usually based on physical environments such as revolutionary historical sites and museums. Through the method of situational reproduction, they place students in specific historical scenes, thereby enabling them to obtain a deeper emotional experience and achieve emotional resonance.

以情景体验式学习帮助学生更好地理解历史、感受革命精神。红色研学通常依托于革命历史遗址、博物馆等实体环境，通过情境再现的方式，让学生置身于特定历史场景之中，从而获得更深刻的情感体验，实现情感共鸣。

Making the content of the “grand ideological and political course” richer and its forms more diverse through the integration and utilization of resources. Red study tours can effectively integrate various educational resources, enabling students to connect history, the present, and the future within a concentrated period of time, and to better understand the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.

以资源整合利用推动“大思政课”内容更丰富、形式更多样。红色研学能够有效整合各类教育资源，使学生在集中时间内贯通历史、现在与未来，更好理解新时代中国特色社会主义伟大实践。

Stimulating students’ curiosity and learning initiative through interactivity and participation. Red study tours place greater emphasis on interactive communication between teachers and students. During the field investigation process, students can raise questions and express opinions, while teachers provide timely guidance to help students deepen their understanding. This two-way interactive teaching model can enhance students’ learning initiative.

以互动性与参与性激发学生的好奇心和学习积极性。红色研学更注重师生之间的互动交流。学生在实地考察过程中可以提出疑问、发表见解，教师则适时引导，帮助学生深化认识。这种双向互动的教学模式能提高学生的学习主动性。

Exploring and Innovating the Practical Path of Empowering the “Grand Ideological and Political Course” with Red Study Tours

探索创新红色研学赋能“大思政课”的实践路径

To empower the high-quality development of the “grand ideological and political course” with red study tours, it is necessary to base ourselves on the conditions of the world, the country, and the Party, and explore and innovate practical paths.

以红色研学赋能“大思政课”高质量发展，必须立足世情国情党情，探索创新实践路径。

Integrating red resources and constructing a study tour curriculum system. It is necessary to fully tap into red resources across the motherland, such as red education bases, revolutionary history museums, and red tourism sites, and combine regional characteristics and historical backgrounds to construct a red study tour curriculum system that conforms to students’ cognitive patterns. The curriculum content should not only focus on explaining historical facts but also on excavating the connotation of the revolutionary spirit and the contemporary value of red culture.

整合红色资源、构建研学课程体系。要充分挖掘祖国各地的红色资源，如红色教育基地、革命历史博物馆、红色旅游景点等，结合地域特色和历史背景，构建符合学生认知规律的红色研学课程体系。课程内容不仅要注重历史事实的讲解，更要注重对革命精神内涵、红色文化当代价值等的挖掘。

Innovating teaching methods to enhance appeal and感染力. Diversified teaching methods should be adopted to integrate red study tours into the ideological and political classroom. For example, organizing students to participate in role-playing, simulating revolutionary scenarios, and carrying out red-themed speech contests, so that students experience through participation and perceive through experience.

创新教学方式、提高吸引力和感染力。要采用多样化教学方式将红色研学融入思政课堂。如组织学生参与角色扮演、模拟革命情景、开展红色主题演讲比赛等，让学生在参与中体验、在体验中感悟。

Strengthening practical teaching to deepen students’ emotional identification. The core of red study tours lies in practice and experience. Schools can organize students to go to red education bases for field visits and study, allowing students not only to personally experience red culture but also to transform the red spirit into practical action through participation in activities such as volunteer service and social surveys, thereby enhancing their sense of social responsibility and historical mission, and deepening their sense of identification with and pride in red culture.

强化实践教学、深化学生的情感认同。红色研学的核心在于实践和体验。学校可以组织学生赴红色教育基地实地参观学习，让学生不仅亲身感受红色文化，还能够通过参与志愿服务、社会调查等活动将红色精神转化为实际行动，提升社会责任感和历史使命感，深化对红色文化的认同感和自豪感。

Promoting interdisciplinary integration to broaden the horizons of ideological and political education. The implementation of red study tours should not be limited to a single discipline but should be integrated with multiple disciplines such as Chinese, history, art, and information technology. For example, in Chinese class, students can recite red poems and give speeches on red stories; in art class, students can draw revolutionary-themed paintings and create red-themed music; in information technology class, students can produce red-themed multimedia presentations. Through interdisciplinary integration, the presentation methods of red study tour content become more diverse, and students’ sense of participation and experience will also be enhanced accordingly.

推动跨学科融合、拓宽思政教育视野。红色研学的开展不应局限于单一学科，而应与语文、历史、艺术、信息技术等多学科进行融合。如在语文课中，学生可以朗诵红色诗篇、进行红色故事演讲；在艺术课中，学生可以绘制革命题材画作、创作红色主题音乐；在信息技术课中，学生可以制作红色主题的多媒体演示文稿。通过跨学科融合，红色研学内容的呈现方式更加多样，学生的参与感和体验感也会随之增强。

Establishing an evaluation mechanism to ensure the effectiveness of study tour education. A scientific and reasonable evaluation mechanism for red study tours should be established to evaluate the organization and implementation effects of study tour activities, focusing on students’ multi-dimensional development in knowledge mastery, emotional attitudes, and behavioral practice. Through diversified evaluation methods such as self-evaluation, peer evaluation, and teacher evaluation, the effects of study tour activities can be comprehensively and objectively reflected.

制定评价机制、确保研学教育实效性。要建立科学合理的红色研学评价机制，对研学活动的组织和实施效果进行评价，重点关注学生知识掌握、情感态度、行为实践等多维度发展。通过自我评价、同伴评价、教师评价等多样化评价方法，全面、客观地反映研学活动效果。

(Author: Guo Runkui, is a member of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Hunan Women’s University)

（作者：郭润葵，系湖南女子学院党委委员、纪委书记）

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