Research On The Cultural Functions Of Ideological And Political Education

As a peculiar existence of human being,culture,which is the sum of all human civilization,records the history of human existence.Ideological and political education is closely connected with culture and widely supported by it from content to form,from matter to spirit as a basis.Actually,this education is essentially considered as a kind of culture,constructs the social culture system with mainstream values which is the core of it,and then complete the task of "culture man".“Making steady headway for the construction of powerful socialistic cultural country” is the most recent request of the 18 th CPC National Congress.As strong engine to the construction of Chinese socialistic culture,this request also enforces and improves the vision of the Ideological and political education.By playing a cultural function,the education should make contributions to the construction of an advanced socialist culture with more connotation,containment and creativity,achieves he purpose to shape people with culture and to revitalize politics with culture.This paper is built on the mutual connection of culture and ideological and political education,researches the way of producing the cultural function of this kind of education.With the final goal of educating people,ideological and political education plays a cultural role during educating progress in new age.Firstly,this paper gives the concept of "culture" and " cultural function",then researches the relationship between ideological and political education and culture to deduce the cultural function of this kind of education,to analyses the 5 basic cultural functions of ideological and political education based on the recent condition of culture development.Secondly,the paper confirms the inevitability of cultural function of ideological and political education by analyzing the aim of this education,then discusses new requests of cultural functions based on the background of economic globalization and cultural diversity,and deduces its principles.Finally,treating the socialist core value system as a key point,the paper explores the ways of cultural functions of ideological and political education whose aim is developing culture and shaping “culture man” by absorbing advanced exotic culture and inheriting excellent traditional culture.Ideological politics education is a kind of human activity which promotes the comprehensive development of human being and society.Today,we should not only respect and develop its political functions,but also vigorously develop its cultural function strongly to make more contributions.