The principle of wholeness means that when implementing educational content, all elements of the ideological and political education content system must work together to make the educational content a system with good functions.

2. Relevance principle

The principle of relevance means that when determining the educational content, we must pay full attention to the interrelation and interaction between the educational content system and the external environment, as well as among the elements in the educational content system.

(1) Pay attention to the correlation and interaction between the educational content system and the external environment.

(2) Attention should be paid to the interrelation and interaction among the elements in the educational content system.

3. The principle of hierarchy

The principle of hierarchy means that when constructing the content system of ideological and political education, we should pay attention to its hierarchy; Determining and implementing different educational contents according to different educational objects will help ideological and political educators to implement different levels of educational contents for different educational objects, combine the advanced requirements and extensive requirements of ideological and political education, and improve the ideological and moral quality of educational objects at different levels.

4. Purpose principle

The purpose principle refers to the overall content and implementation of ideological and political education, which must have a clear purpose. The purpose principle requires ideological and political educators to correctly grasp the objectives of the educational content system and make it consistent with the overall objectives of ideological and political education. At the same time, they should be good at decomposing the goal of the content system into various elements, so that the goal of each element is closely related to the specific work and life, and a coordinated goal system is formed with the goal of the content system, so that the educational objects can gradually realize all levels.

5. Key element principle

The principle of key elements means that when determining the content of education, we should put relatively small elements in a secondary position and relatively large elements in a main position, so as to highlight key elements.