Using Blogs as a Support to Ideological and Political Education

Authors

  • Ping Sun the Teaching Department of the Ideological and Political Theory, North China Electric Power University Beijing 102206 P.R.China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v3i8.489

Keywords:

blogs, university students, ideological education

Abstract

During my teaching, I find a regretful phenomenon, that is, the university students in China today rarely or even never read books. The “books” here refer to the books in Arts and Humanity, excluding their text books. Under the major-oriented and job-orientedlearning atmosphere, their reading has an obvious utilitarian intention, which results in their narrow knowledge, shallow thought, irrational thinking, andimpulsive actions. Expelled by this fact, in the recent five years, I ask every student who attends my class to write blogs on some recommended books, which will be taken as one of their assessments in the whole semester. The blogs proved to be a useful bridge between the teacher and the students, through which, the teacher can share ideas with the students about the books and about their personal emotions.

Author Biography

Ping Sun, the Teaching Department of the Ideological and Political Theory, North China Electric Power University Beijing 102206 P.R.China

an associate professor in the Teaching Department of the Ideological and Political Theory, North China Electric Power Universitymajor in CPC history

References

Fang, Xingdong & Wang, Junxiu. (2003).Blog—the Fire-robber in the E-age. Beijing: Chinese Fangzheng Press.

Wang, Shanfei & Yu, Wengang. (2008). The Influences of Blog upon University Students Ideological Education and the Corresponding Strategies. Journal of Social Science of Hunan Medical University, (11).

Xue, Baolin& Wang, Yuguo. (2011). The Effective Measures of Using Blog In University Ideological Education. Chinese After-school Education, (12).

Zhang, Jiuhai & Liu, Xinghai. (2009). A Paradox of Blog— the Influences of Blog on University Students. Education Research Monthly, (7).

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Published

2014-09-02

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 8 (2014): August

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