TOWARDS AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF ‘AN INTRODUCTION’ WITH THE ‘XUEXI QIANGGUO’ APP
In this new era of mobile internet, in the face of the demanding task of educating students and helping them to have correct values, so that they can understand socialism with Chinese characteristics better and be willing to make contributions to our Chinese dream of national rejuvenation, we teachers should advance with the times, and design our ideological and political education courses properly to enhance college students’ integrative motivation to make learning a part of their everyday life, and help them develop a good habit in their lifetime. Based on constructivism, we can make use of some smart phone-based apps like “Xuexi Qiangguo” to have an integrative approach. This app is distinctive, authoritative, and powerful, like a great treasure house with a lot of news, theories, and stories. It is flexible, easily accessible, and efficient, and is able to us make a big difference in teaching. Our case study shows how we can actually rebuild a preview mechanism, upgrade our learning style and better evaluation mechanism for better teaching of some courses.