Ideological and Political Education Management of College Students

under the New Period

Zhang Yunfang

Shangdong Institute of Commerce and Technology, Jinan, Shangdong, 250103, China

Keywords: College Students, Ideological and Political Education Management, Problem, Management Measures.

Abstract: Under the new period, the ideological and political education management of college students has offered

important guidance for their future employment. In that case, it is imperative to intensify the studies on this

issue. Since colleges and universities are relatively special fields in the society, the problem of college

students’ ideological and political education becomes even more complicated. In order to conduct research

related more effectively, the work probed into the current situation of ideological and political education

management of college students under the new period and proposed the idea that education must conform to

realities to boost the ideological and political education of college students.

1 INTRODUCTION

It was once clearly stated in the 16th central

document, On Further Strengthening and Improving

the Ideological and Political Education of College

Students, that concept education is the core of

college education, aiming to cultivate all-round

college students with ideal, ambition, patriotism and

collective love. That is because college students are

valuable human resources for socialist

modernization drive. While enhancing students’

abilities and qualifications, it is also necessary to

strengthen the ideological and political education so

that students are able to contribute to the party

development and socialist progress, thus improve the

quality of the whole society. Nevertheless, with the

continuous development of economy in the recent

years, the monolithic ideological and political level

of college students has slightly declined to some

extent, while the education situation has a quite

significant influence on students’ future

comprehensive development (Zhou Danwei, 2012).

On this account, colleges and universities have

attached more importance to the ideological and

political education. As a result, with contents related

enriched, teaching methods improved and teaching

body well trained, ideological and political

education has achieved increasingly prominent

effects, which also exerts a profound impact on

students. The work made an analysis of the current

situation in the beginning, and further figured out the

effective measures for improvement to help enhance

the level of college students’ ideological and

political education management.

2 CURRENT SITUATION OF

IDEOLOGICAL AND

POLITICAL EDUCATION

MANAGEMENT OF COLLEGE

STUDENTS UNDER THE NEW

PERIOD

2.1 Resultant Force of Ideological and

Political Education Management

Has Not Formed

Economic development facilitates the transformation

of education. Since the opening up and reform, the

ideological and political education of college

students has witnessed continuous progress and the

educational system has also been improved

constantly. However, as the reform focus gradually

transfers to the economic aspect, the economic

development appears to be more crucial while the

situation of ideological and political education of

college students are being neglected by colleges and

universities. Recently, the issue has again aroused

public concern as the construction of socialist

spiritual civilization is being presented. Colleges and

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DOI: 10.5220/0006027003890392

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universities have accomplished great progress in the

discipline construction, curriculum design and

teaching evaluation. In the meantime, the ideological

and political education management is also

advancing ahead (Ma Xinping, 2010). But on

account that there is still a long run to go before the

development of ideological and political education,

any kind of support from the society is desperately

needed for the problem solving. Thus, a resultant

force can be generated to facilitate the development

of ideological and political education more

powerfully. Nevertheless, in face of varying

economic situation and sophisticated social

problems, such a resultant force has still not taken

shape. Without an effective resultant force from the

college, family and society and merely relying on

the power of college, it can by no means fulfill the

objective of ideological and political education. In

sum, forming a resultant force is vitally important.

2.2 Incorrect Ideological and Political

Management Misleads Students

Due to the continuous advancement of economy,

society, science and technology, the emergence of

various communication media makes it far more

convenient for students to have access to

information of whatever direction. Today, as the

opening up and reform develops in depth, students

are exposed to all sorts of thoughts in the world. A

variety of capitalist ideas are being extended in

China, which is continuously eroding students’

thoughts. Most college students, having not

embarked on society before, do not acquire adequate

life experiences, so it is likely for them to give

respects to the so-called thoughts of capitalist

democracy and freedom. They will tend to take it for

granted that China’s socialism is relatively lagging

behind the western capitalism. Thus, students’ ideas

will tend to go to extremes so that their outlooks on

life and values are being damaged and that it is

easier for them to generate an aversion to socialist

society, which goes against the construction of a

harmonious society as a whole. For this reason, it

seems to be more important to strengthen the

ideological and political work on college students.

2.3 Teaching Faculty of College

Ideological and Political Education

Remains to be Improved

To enhance college students’ ideological and

political level, it depends on not merely the self-

improvement of students’ learning level, but also

instructions by highly qualified teaching faculty.

Only with active cooperation between students and

teachers can students achieve greater progress. At

the request of various central documents and

policies, colleges and universities have fostered a

group of well-qualified workers on ideology and

politics who are now striving in the front position of

college ideological and political education. They

have trained a multitude of talents for the society

and have become the dominant force in the field.

However, in spite that workers on college

ideological and political education have boosted

their quality, due to the low payment and unclear

prospects, problems of absentmindedness,

tremendous liquidity and strong temporary concepts

follow by. Such ideas and concepts have affected the

talents cultivation plan of political educators as well

as the perfection of related educational work. As a

result, an obvious decline appeared in the level of

teaching faculty, which is truly adverse to the

development of ideological and political education.

2.4 Implementation of College

Students’ New Concepts of

Ideological and Political Education

Develops Relatively Slowly

An increasing number of research accomplishments

arise as more attention and support are paid to the

cause of college ideological and political education.

This provides more theoretical exchanges and makes

contribution to the further development. However,

when applying these research fruits into real

practice, some teachers in colleges and universities

simply superficially interpret one single concept

instead of conducting in-depth research before

application, and just go through the motions of

teaching. Actually, the ideological and political

work is only taken as a soft task that is being ignored

and even misunderstood. The fact is that colleges are

laying emphasis on increasing the scale of running,

level of discipline construction and employment

rate, but neglect the seemingly unrelated ideological

and political education work. For this reason, the

implementation in reality confronts with a backward

situation. Students are impeded from receiving

correct ideological and political education, which

counts against the socialist construction.

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2.5 Innovation, Timeliness and

Pertinence of College Ideological

and Political Education Still Wait

Strengthening

Living in such a complex modern society, college

students at present are exposed to a variety of new

thoughts and ideas. In order to further ensure that the

ideological and political education goes on smoothly

among students, domestic colleges and universities

are making different efforts. They are striving to

make innovations to advance with the times so as to

promote the educational development, including

infrastructure improvement, creative working

methods and approaches, taking full use of novel

network technology and so forth. Although they

have endeavored to achieve a solid and effective

result, the transformation of anything can by no

means be accomplished overnight. There still lacks

creativeness and pertinence in the current

ideological and political education work. For

example, teachers in some colleges and universities

continue to give lectures in the traditional way

utilized decades ago, and even adopt the dated

theories into actual teaching. Thus, there appears a

phenomenon that imparts the ideological and

political education from the society. In addition,

some of this work also fails to coincide with

students’ actual characteristics, so they are not

germane to students’ lives or realistic enough to

facilitate students’ development.

3 IMPROVEMENT MEASURES

FOR IDEOLOGICAL AND

POLITICAL EDUCATION

UNDER THE NEW PERIOD

3.1 Cooperation between Society and

Family in Ideological and Political

Education

Due to the inadequate resultant force among society,

family and college, the development of ideological

and political education merely counts on colleges,

which is unfavorable for the sound development of

college students and prone to alienate their

ideological status with the society. Therefore, the

education department should actively call for family

and society to actively cooperate with colleges as

well as provide with various support both materially

and spiritually. For example, college students should

receive family education at home; The society

should raise the status of college students and help

colleges with infrastructure construction of

ideological and political education. In other words,

colleges should be provided with financial support

so as to rapidly establish cooperation among society,

family and college in the development of college

ideological and political education. Thus, students

can achieve highly effective progress.

3.2 Establishment of a Stable Teaching

Faculty of College Ideological and

Political Education

With continuously reduced professional teachers in

the respect of ideological and political education of

college students and constant professional talents

flow, the quality of teaching faculty is gradually

weakened so that the ideological and political

education received by college students is not stable

or in a high-level. Since qualified talents can never

be cultivated in such a way, it is of significance to

stabilize the construction of teaching faculty. All the

colleges should pay full attention to the ideological

and political education with more investment and an

increase of wages for talents. Meanwhile, the salary

system and promotion system should be perfected to

meet the requirements of professional ideological

and political education workers. Only in this way,

will the ideological and political education talents be

willing to stay in the work to give full play to their

superiority, and help college students to form a

correct ideological and political concept, and finally

lay a correct thought foundation for their future

development as well as make sure of the smooth

process of ideological and political education.

3.3 Active Construction of Campus

Culture and a Harmonious Campus

Cultural Environment

It is the basic work of ideological and political

education to build a campus culture and optimize the

teaching environment, because an active campus

cultural environment can positively promote the

development of students' thoughts, be helpful for

them to consciously accept the influence of campus

culture and also promote the development of

ideological quality level. The college should make

more efforts to clean up the campus cultural

environment. It can enrich the school's academic

atmosphere through various academic exchange

activities as well as facilitate the construction of

harmonious environment in college by carrying out a

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variety of recreational activities. This kind of

combination is in favor of the germination of

students' innovative thinking, which can provide a

better situation for the sound development of college

students and more powerful conditions for the

development of college students' personalities.

Consequently, a harmonious culture environment

also provides students with a better atmosphere for

academic research, which is beneficial to students'

academic exchanges and can help them develop

themselves rapidly and comprehensively in practice.

3.4 Use of the Internet Teaching to

Provide a New Carrier for the

Ideological and Political Work

The methods of traditional ideological and political

education work is kind of monotonous and boring,

unhelpful to arouse modern students' learning

interest and unfavorable for students to gain more

advanced political theories. In order to improve the

level of ideological and political education in

college, teachers are required to provide students

with more efficient and advanced political theories,

and arouse the students' interest in learning

ideological and political knowledge. Additionally,

teachers should also constantly explore new teaching

methods and innovate them constantly. As a newly-

emerging industry in recent years, the Internet is an

essential part of the development of every industry.

In the teaching of ideological and political education

in college, the teacher needs to learn about the

proper use of the Internet for teaching, arouse the

students' interest and communicate with students

more deeply. In addition, when using the Internet,

teachers should make a strict regulation to prevent

the problems of internet in college. Then the college

needs to build a complete network over the campus

in order to help the students get more resources, also

meet the needs of the students.

3.5 Pertinence Improvement of

Ideological and Political Education

The traditional way of ideological and political

education only refers to teach some relevant political

theories in class, which is divorced from reality at

present. The ideological and political education in

college is expected to affect the students' moral

values rather than teach students' bookish political

ideas. In the ideological and political education, it

must be taken into consideration that college

students are about to enter the society. As a result,

the education must aim at their learning properties

so that college and society can be connected

organically. Through the moral practice, students

can fully understand the importance of ideological

and political education and further recognize the

serious situation of job-hunting. So their outlooks on

life and values can be improved. In addition, for the

sake of the students' psychological health and

political ideas, teachers should help students to solve

practical problems of life in the process of political

education, which can further strengthen the

pertinence and timeliness of ideological and political

education in college.

4 CONCLUSION

There is still a long way to go before improving the

management of college students' ideological and

political education. Joint efforts of various social

aspect are needed and students are required to

consciously resist the negative thoughts. For college

students, it is quite necessary to fully understand that

the ideological and political education has a lot to do

with students’ own sound development, full

employment, and self-improvement. Therefore, only

if all the aspects are improved and settled can

students study better. At present, however, there are

still some problems in college students' ideological

and political education, which are the inevitable

outcome of social development. Hence, colleges and

universities should take proper and reasonable

solutions to improve themselves according to the

correct rules of social development. In order to help

students to accept more advanced educational ideas

and come up with correct political thoughts,

furthermore, teachers should strive to cultivate

brilliant talents available for the socialist

modernization construction and simultaneously

encourage those talents to make his own

contributions to the stability and prosperity of China.

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Zhou Danwei. Analysis and Discusses on the Mechanism

of Ideological and Political Education Management.

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Ma Xinping. On the Management of College Students'

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