关键词: 研究对象, 思想政治教育问题, 实质对象, 形式对象

Abstract: The definition and identification of research subjects not only pertain to the disciplinary attributes and position of the discipline of ideological and political education, but also profoundly influence the construction of its disciplinary system and development trajectory. In academic history, representative perspectives such as the “law-based perspective”, “phenomenon-based perspective”, “relationship-based perspective” and “activity-based perspective” have revealed certain attributes and characteristics of the research subjects in ideological and political education studies from different dimensions. However, they have consistently failed to fundamentally demonstrate their selfconsistency and uniqueness. Grounded in the disciplinary attributes and independence of the discipline of ideological and political education, its research subjects should be defined as issues of ideological and political education, iea perspective termed the “problemoriented perspective”. In addition, to meet the demands of deepening research and achieving highquality disciplinary development, we propose the necessity of further differentiating research subjects into material objects and formal objects, in order to clarify the disciplinary stance and boundary while making clear its irreplaceable academic identity and value in the production of disciplinary knowledge. Therefore, building on the clarification of the research subjects, we should highlight the disciplinary thinking and stance through differentiating material and formal objects, promote the production of disciplinary knowledge around the issues of ideological and political education, and facilitate the transformation of disciplinary construction from a systems paradigm to a practiceoriented paradigm.

Key words: research objects, issues of ideological and political education, material objects, formal objects