Ideological And Political Educationin Literary

Since the policy of reform and opening was taken, educators pay more attention to the development of ideological and political education. The traditional teaching skills in the class seem to be dull and monotonous. In order to achieve the goal of fostering a versatile person, how to fully develop the ideological and political education resources has become a new and important issue. Ideological and political education resources which include the abundant content have various forms. As one of the magnificent aspect of the resources, literature also contains enormous resources. How to maximize the literary function of our ideological and political education is this paper’s main idea.Literature has aesthetic function, cognitive function, educational function and entertainment function which make it become a useful resource of ideological and political education. An outstanding literature which reflects the hidden ideological implication and political thoughts has the advantage of education. The truth being hidden in the works can water everything peacefully. In other words, it can influence the reader’s opinion quietly and silently.Why choose 1980s’ literature as an example, because that particular times has affected our understanding of today’s culture, political values and literature. As a resource, the value of literature is reflected in: as a special form of enriching the content of ideological and political education; It carry the function of ideological and political education, and consolidate its educational achievement; It succeeded in weakening the impact of negative education, and achieve the purpose of the implicit education; more importantly, it can build the capacity of educatee’s self-education in order to achieve the ultimate goal of education.With the development of our society, the literature’s ideological and political education has to face difficulties and challenging. For example, market economy and information age have brought some danger to our traditional literature; educatee’s self-awareness and personal characters is enhanced and most of our teenagers become closed and indifferent; the timeliness,historic and ambiguity of literature itself have limited the further development of literature’ s ideological and political education. In order to maximize the function of literature’ s ideological and political education, some steps should be taken: firstly, we ought to pay attention to the new medium especially net literature; Second, we must adhere to the correct direction of literary creation, especially adhere to the Marxist literary theory; finally, more literary qualities should be demanded for our educators. Besides, educators should remind educatee that knowledge and action should go hand in hand. With our effort, the function of literature’s ideological and political education will be promoted successfully in the end.