During the Cold War, social problems in the United States seriously affected social progress. 1983, the American Education Reform Commission put forward a "national crisis", and the government made up its mind to carry out education reform and strengthen moral education for the younger generation. 1988 paying attention to excellent education points out that intellectual development is the purpose of education. From 65438 to 0993, the government promulgated the educational reform plan of "Goal 2000: American Education Act" to vigorously promote moral education activities; 1996 and 1997' s State of the Union address emphasize that to restore the international competitiveness of the United States, we must start with cultivating talents, conduct character education in schools, and train American teenagers to be good citizens.
The content of ideological and political education for college students is increasingly rich.
1. In western countries, with the great attention of the government and schools, the social public function and economic benefits of school ideological and political education have been significantly enhanced, and the educational content has become increasingly rich. The contents of ideological and political education for foreign college students include: First, the traditional educational content has been developed. These include moral education, values education, outlook on life education, political education, civic education, patriotism education, national tradition education, personality education, psychological education, law and discipline education, professional ethics education, religious education and so on. Second, pay attention to the unified cultivation of national consciousness and global consciousness. Such as strengthening the cultivation of individual moral qualities such as honesty, trustworthiness, integrity, tolerance and discipline, thus forming a common personal value standard. Third, the content of education is increasingly rich. Such as environmental education, human rights education, modern people's consumption view education, international peace and understanding education and moral quality education to adapt to the future society.
2. Western countries have one thing in common in implementing ideological and political education for college students; Take the school as the center, and form a radial all-round educational network of family, school and society. The United States and western Europe adopt a relatively hidden form, that is, the strict student work organization in colleges and universities actually exercises the ideological education function for college students, and his intelligence is indeed carried out in the name of daily behavior management, and often through vocational counseling and psychological counseling. They use a form of non-ideological and political education to convey substantive daily ideological and political education content. Their scientific institutions, expert teams, sound working systems and good service centers and facilities all show that the essence of their ideological and political education is to emphasize the coordination of various management mechanisms.
Thirdly, the enlightenment to the daily ideological and political education of college students in China.
Many outstanding achievements of ideological and political education for college students abroad are worth learning from, and it is of great theoretical and practical significance to improve our work in combination with China's reality.
(A) to strengthen the ideological and political education of college students under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism.
The ideological function of ideological and political education, that is, distinctive political characteristics, is to unite people's hearts, consolidate political power and stabilize society. Today, China's modernization is facing many new problems. To resist the erosion of all kinds of bad ideas, we must strengthen the ideology of ideological and political education. We should unswervingly adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents as the guiding ideology of college students' ideological and political education, thoroughly implement Scientific Outlook on Development's educational policy, closely integrate the reality of building a well-off society in an all-round way, take the education of ideals and beliefs as the core, take the development of patriotism as the goal, emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, and adhere to the people-oriented principle. Close to reality, life and students, strive to improve the pertinence, effectiveness, attraction and appeal of ideological and political education, and cultivate qualified socialist builders and reliable successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty; It is necessary to strengthen national traditional education, carry forward the excellent moral tradition and national spirit education of the Chinese nation, integrate ideological and political education into the long-standing national culture, and have the ability and consciousness to adapt to society and solve problems.
(B) daily life as a breakthrough to promote the diversification of ideological and political education of college students.
Integrating the ideological and political education of college students into the specific time of serving students is another feature of ideological and political work of college students abroad, which enhances the effectiveness of daily ideological and political education of college students. We should take students' daily life as a breakthrough and strengthen the diversification of college students' ideological and political education. First of all, we must adhere to the principle of indoctrination. The essence of indoctrination ideological and political education practice is not the concept of educational methods. Under the new situation, it is necessary to innovate indoctrination methods and expand indoctrination space. To study a series of problems such as the study and life reality of the educational object, the educational environment and the effectiveness of education, we should take the daily life reality of college students as the educational core. Secondly, pay attention to the combination of "explicit education" and "negative education" and the combination of "indoctrination" and "infiltration". We should not only pay attention to systematic theoretical study, so that schools and teachers can play an active role in ideological and political education, but also give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of educational objects. Pay attention to the naturalness and concealment of methods, and integrate education into the personality edification of teachers' good manners. Finally, create a relaxed environment, so that students can establish a correct outlook on life and values in colorful activities and relaxed environment, and form a good ideological and political quality in a more relaxed environment.
(C) adhere to the people-oriented, highlighting the status and role of ideological and political education for college students.
In the process of ideological and political education for college students, both the educated and the educated are cultural, value-oriented, dynamic and personalized people. In the ideological and political education of college students in western China, we attach great importance to people's autonomy and give full play to people's subjectivity in education, which fully embodies the people-oriented educational concept. Our educational philosophy should also adhere to the people-oriented principle and strive to improve the attraction and appeal of ideological and political education. First of all, give full play to the main role of educators and pay attention to improving their professional quality and ideological quality. As teachers and managers of ideological and political education for college students, they should influence students' political views, moral views and outlook on life through their own political attitudes, moral qualities and lifestyles, and give full play to their exemplary role. Secondly, give full play to the main role of the educated object. We should put the subjectivity of developing educational objects in the central position and attach importance to the cultivation of subjective ideological and political quality; It is necessary to strengthen the participation and practicality of educational objects and pay attention to "behavior formation" so that they can not only master the knowledge and norms they have learned, but also have the ability and consciousness to adapt to society and solve problems; Respect their individuality and unique feelings, create a democratic teaching environment, give priority to stimulation in re-education, give the educated full freedom and let them become the masters of their own thoughts and actions.