关键词: 价值观教育, 思想政治教育学科, 标识性概念, 范畴

Abstract: Ideological and political education is a social practice with a distinct value stance, value orientation, and value aspiration. Education about values, grounded in a value stance, is the central theme that runs throughout the process of ideological and political education. The theoretical system of ideological and political education, which provides scholarly distillation and conceptual construction of the practice of ideological and political education, stands in a relationship of theory to practice and of the reflecting to the reflected with respect to the activity of ideological and political education. Since education about values is the central theme of the practice of ideological and political education, the concept of education about values, which reflects the distinctive attributes of that practice, should be a signature concept that displays the character of the discipline and possesses explanatory power and recognizability with regard to the phenomena of ideological and political education. Given the special status and role of education about values in the theory and practice of ideological and political education, elevating it from a signature concept to an important category could open up a new research landscape within the discipline of ideological and political education.

Key words: education about values, the discipline of ideological and political education, signature concept, category