Research On The Function Of Animation And Ideological Education

ACG (Animation, Comics and Games) gains its popularity in adolescents nowadays with its humorous form and imagination, which has significant effect on juveniles’cognition, morality and values. Excellent ACG has imperceptibly positive influence on the healthy growth of adolescents. During different periods, comics and animations have been applied massively to the situation and policy education, ideological and moral education. During the War of Resistance against Japan, the KMT and CPC used street comics to publicize anti-Japanese national united front. In the initial of PRC, the CPC used comics to publicize socialism, educate and mobilize the mass. Since the Socialist Reform and Opening-up, CPC took the ACG industry into juveniles’ ideological and moral construction, which redefined the orientation of ACG industry. After the eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, renaissance on the road studio and CCDI used ACG for political publicity abroad, including anti-corruption and CPC image building.Therefore, it is significant to discuss the values and paths of ideological and political education via ACG for juveniles’healthy personality, moral cultivation, values shaping and ideal establishment. In the perspective of the ideological and political education, this thesis tries to explore ACG’s function of ideological and political education and find out the restrictive factors of ACG’s malfunction through the retrospect of ACG’s education history and the dual influences on teenagers’moral characters and personality formation. Above all, this essay makes the first attempt to survey ACG’s dual mechanism on ideological and political education, namely the morality aesthetics mechanism and content cultivation mechanism. Based on ACG’s beauty of content and form, this essay offers feasible suggestions on ACG curriculum resource applied to the ideological and political class teaching and the construction of education environment, gives improved opinion on the development of domestic ACG industry and the optimization of ACG’s content.