Ideological and political education is a process in which educators and educatees constantly improve their ideological and political moral quality and promote all-round development according to the needs of society and their own development, guided by correct ideological and political moral theory, and in the process of adapting to and promoting social development. The connotation of ideological and political education revolves around the special contradiction of ideological and political education, which is the foundation of ideological and political education.

First, the essential attribute of ideological and political education is people-oriented, and educators and educatees are the basic elements of ideological and political education. Second, ideological and political education has a distinct ideology, that is, the basic relationship between ideological and political education and social ideology. Third, the content of ideological and political education is prescriptive, which is reflected in the ideological, political and moral provisions. Fourth, the purpose of ideological and political education.

This is determined by the thought and content of ideological and political education. We should reflect and serve the social development goals according to the requirements of a certain social productivity, economic and cultural development level and dominant ideology; It is also necessary to embody the characteristics of people's initiative and the needs of people's development, and realize people's conscious and all-round development.

The research object of ideological and political education is composed of the study of unique contradictions in the field of ideological and political education. The basic contradiction in the research field of ideological and political education is the contradiction between the requirements of a certain class for people's ideological and moral quality and its actual ideological and moral level in a certain society. The phenomenon of ideological and political education refers to the various connections and objective forms of ideological and political education in the process of its occurrence, development and change.

Ideological and political education refers to the contradictions that need to be studied and solved in ideological and political education, including key points, difficulties and special topics. Only by starting from the phenomenon of ideological and political education and grasping the research focus in the process of studying ideological and political education can we reveal the law of ideological and political education.