Guided by the basic theories of Marxism, curriculum ideology and politics is the implicit ideological and political education in public basic courses, professional education courses, and practical courses in colleges and universities. It aims to carry out ideological and political education imperceptibly and seamlessly, achieving the holistic educational effect: involving everyone, throughout the whole process, and in all aspects. It also strives to achieve the teaching goals of imparting knowledge, cultivating abilities, and leading values in an integrated manner. However, curriculum ideology and politics has exposed several problems such as “rigid integration”, “shallow integration”, “superficiality”, and “labeling”, indicating that the current effect of curriculum ideology and politics is not ideal enough, and there are bottlenecks that need to be broken through and areas for improvement. The research on the integration path of curriculum ideology and politics has become a prominent focus.
The study, taking computer basic courses as a case study, delves into the influence and interconnections of the various elements of curriculum ideology and politics. It constructs a model titled “The Integration Path of Ideology and Politics in Computer Basic Courses”, which offers tailored integration strategies for different types of knowledge. It further deepens and broadens the systematic exploration of curriculum ideology and politics, thereby enhancing and expanding the theoretical framework and methods within this field. This study not only advances the reform of ideological and political education within computer basic courses but also serves as a paradigm and exemplar for the integration of ideological and political education across other disciplines and majors. It addresses key issues prevalent in, such as inadequate integration, a lack of cohesiveness, and weak systematic approaches, providing effective solutions to these challenges. This study also promotes the reform of curriculum ideology and politics in computer basic courses, provides a typical example and demonstration path for ideology and politics construction of curriculum ideology and politics in other disciplines and majors, and can effectively solve prominent problems such as insufficient integration, inadequate unity, and weak systematicity of ideological and political education in courses.
Based on the current macro policy background, disciplinary development background, and curriculum and education reform background, employing implicit curriculum theory, teaching goal classification theory, and other theoretical foundations, the study comprehensively adopts research methods such as quantitative research, qualitative research, and action research, and conducts in-depth research from the perspectives of teachers and students. Firstly, through questionnaire surveys, it quantitatively studies the influencing factors and related relationships of ideological and political education among university teachers and students; Secondly, qualitative research was conducted through interviews, and a model for integrating ideological and political education into computer basic courses was established from six dimensions: teaching objectives, teaching content, teaching subjects, media environment, teaching activities, and teaching evaluation; Finally, based on the conclusions of quantitative and qualitative research, the integration path for curriculum ideology and politics, was constructed and verified through teaching practice.
This study proposes a framework for analyzing the influencing factors, dimensions and models, practical paths, and effectiveness of integrating ideological and political education into courses, which will help to systematically solve problems such as "hard integration" and "shallow integration" of ideological and political education in courses; countermeasures and suggestions are also proposed: from general requirements to individual characteristics, establish a combination of curriculum ideological and political teaching objectives, content system, and highlight curriculum ideological and political characteristics; from external environment to internal actors, integrate the improvement of the overall environment for ideological and political education with the promotion of teachers' capabilities and students' experiences; in ideological and political teaching; from exemplary models to comprehensive deepening, combine a variety of ideological and political teaching activities with flexible evaluation methods for ideological and political teaching.
This study reflects that we should be vigilant about the “narrowing” and “generalization” of curriculum ideology and politics, reposition and shape the role of teachers, and establish the orientation and return of "Value Guidance" in the integration path of curriculum ideology and politics. Further prospects for future research include empowering curriculum ideology and politics with new computer technologies, exploring innovative paths for integrating ideological and political education into courses, carrying out interdisciplinary cooperation between professional teachers and ideological and political teachers, and breaking down the “barriers” between ideological and political curricula and curriculum ideology and politics, continuously exploring systematic methods for integrating ideological and political education into courses, and comparing and studying the differences in ideological and political education among teachers from different types of universities and students from different majors.
The innovation of this study is to explore the influencing factors and related relationships of ideological and political education among college teachers and students through quantitative research; Through qualitative research, a systematic model for integrating ideological and political education into the courses has been constructed; Through action research and practical testing, the effective path for integrating ideological and political education into the curricula have been improved iteratively.