Optimizing pathways for cultivating cultural confidence among university students through ideological and political theory courses
依托思政课培育大学生文化自信的优化路径探究

摘要

文化自信事关国运兴衰、事关文化安全、事关民族精神独立性，大学生文化自信则事关中国特色社会主义文化的未来发展。当前，面对中国特色社会主义文化，高校大学生存在着“缺乏了解”“缺乏认同”或“缺乏创造”的困境，这阻碍了文化自信的形成。高校是培育大学生文化自信的前沿阵地，思想政治理论课则是培育大学生文化自信的直接场域。依托思政课化解其中的难题，不仅是高校的职责所在，更是因为思政课教学与大学生文化自信培育在目标、内容和方法上高度耦合。为全面落实习总书记关于教育的重要论述，切实解决好中国特色社会主义建设者和接班人的培养问题，高校思政课应当通过开展分层教学，针对性培育大学生文化自信；加强校地融合，多渠道培育大学生文化自信；鼓励文化创造，高质量培育大学生文化自信。

Abstract

Cultural confidence is closely related to national development, cultural security, and the independence of the national spirit, while the cultural confidence of university students bears directly on the future development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. At present, some university students have insufficient knowledge of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, lack a strong sense of identification with it, or demonstrate inadequate capacity for cultural innovation, all of which hinder the development of cultural confidence. Universities are at the forefront of cultivating cultural confidence among young people, and ideological and political theory courses provide an important educational platform for cultivating cultural confidence among university students. Addressing these challenges through such courses is not only an inherent responsibility of universities but is also underpinned by the close alignment between ideological and political theory education and the cultivation of cultural confidence in terms of educational objectives, content, and methods. To fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education and effectively fulfill the task of cultivating builders and successors of socialism with Chinese characteristics, universities should further leverage the role of ideological and political theory courses by adopting differentiated and tiered instruction to enhance the relevance of cultural confidence education, strengthening university–local cooperation to diversify the channels through which cultural confidence is cultivated, and encouraging cultural innovation to improve the quality and effectiveness of such education.