Research On The Culture Functions Of Ideological And Political Education

As a peculiar existence of human being, culture is the sum of all human civilizationachievements, it is in the form of material, spirit and system records the history of humanexistence, embodies the human characteristic of transcending animal nature spirittemperament. But in essence, to promote people’s free all-round development, in turn, tomaintain and promote social existence and development as the main goal of ideologicaland political education, is closely connected with culture before have internal relations.On the one hand, the ideological and political education to culture as the basis, to providea uniquely human practice activity from content to form, from matter to spirit ofall-round support;, on the other hand, the ideological and political education is the soulof culture, constructs the social culture system with mainstream values which is the coreof it, promote the development of culture, and then complete the task of "culture man" Asit were, ideological and political education takes the cultural responsibility on, or,ideological and political education is essentially a kind of culture. And traditionalideological and political education has obvious political symbol, cultural characteristicsdecline and value judgment will always tend to the pattern of indeterminacy. Thepolitics-oriented ideological and political of education in the special period, particularcase plays its proper role, but under the general norm of social development, will showits defects. Return of ideological and political education to nature and completesnurturing the views of human mind and values, by taking socialist core value system asthe main content, which is based on the connotation of traditional culture, to thought theessence of foreign culture for reference, to complete the training on people’s mind andvalues. As the main body to promote the development of society and culture,in thecomplete framework of ideological concept system of value, we should fulfill thesocialist core value system consciously, carry forward the essence of traditional Chineseculture heritage and draw on the excellent foreign cultures with open eyes in order toplay out ideological and political education in mainstream culture as the core, leading thedirection of cultural development, inherit cultural development context, and finallyintegrate the cultural function in cultural development system. Ideological and politicaleducation plays its cultural function, improves the ideological level, scientificity, innovativeness and inclusiveness of cultural construction, and then makes duecontributions in the promotion of cultural development for the construction of anadvanced socialist culture, while it promotes the development of culture, it also achievesthe purpose to shape people with culture and to revitalize politics with culture.This paper is built on the cultural basis of ideological and political education,make clear the relations between ideological and political education and culture, alwayswith the goal of educating people as the starting point of ideological and politicaleducation, explore the path and ways of how ideological and political education plays itscultural function by nurturing people and let them to complete the cultural function ofideological and political education.Firstly, this paper starts with the concept of "culture","function","Ideological andPolitical Education","ideological and political education and cultural functions", andmakes the relations of ideological and political education and culture clear by clarifyingthe related concepts of ideological and political education and cultural functions from thefurther view of the relations of nature, purpose, interaction, and considers thatideological and political education is a kind of culture in some certain sense. To explorehow the ideological and political education plays its cultural function of internal andexternal mechanisms by regarding the ideological and political education as a culture andcombines with the reality of contemporary social and cultural development, this paperelaborates the practical inevitability of cultural functions of ideological and politicaleducation.Secondly, the author has reviewed some outstanding writers’ theory of culturalfunction of ideological and political education, and under the guidance of the theory andpractice of the Chinese Communist Party in ideological and political education andculture, the author also drawing theories from the West, especially the theories on themoral and cultural features since the Renaissance. Although many theorists did notdirectly mention the concept of " ideological and political education and culturalfunctions", but they had made rich ideas and theories on ideological and politicaleducation and culture function in different historical periods, different backgrounds anddifferent social development of social production conditions. To sum up, summarize andstudy these ideas and theories conscientiously is better for us today to play its culturalfunction through the ideological and political education and it plays an important guiding significance, it also provides us an important theoretical support.The last part is about the specific methods and main contents of cultural functionthat is presented by ideological and political education. As an important part of the paper,it is a necessary step to make a detailed interpretation of such cultural function. In thisstep, we will discuss the three functions of ideological and political educationseparately—that is, cultural, cultural transmission and cultural integration. As for thediscussion of the three functions, we all start from connotation limits, trying to answerthe question of “what it is”; then discuss the necessity of the cultural functions presentedby ideological and political education, which shows the reason to discuss it; finally, putforward the approaches and methods to develop these functions, which tells us how tomake it. During the process of discussion, all the parts indicate that ideological andpolitical education, at first, is a practical activity. The men, who are educated andcivilized, are trying to play the cultural functions of ideological and political education.This always happen in the process, in which socialist core value system leads to thecultural development, the traditional culture transmits the cultural skeleton, andintegrates the excellent foreign cultural thoughts. These three cultural functions are thevery important aspects for ideological and political education, and they could interact,interrelate and inter depend. Their connections could not be dissevered. Instead, theyshould be integrated as one to better develop the cultural functions of ideological andpolitical education.Ideological politics education is a kind of activity, uniquely human society since itsexistence and development is a class society coordinated development needs, but also theneed of comprehensive development of human freedom. It protects the interest of rulingclass in different history periods and records human beings’ history of culturedevelopment by a recognition of the basic human culture.Today’s ideological andpolitical education, we continue to respect and develop its political functions, andvigorously develop its cultural function, make its lead in culture, cultural inheritance andcultural integration to make due contributions.