Cultivating, Believing, and Practicing: The Logic and Approach to Empowering College Students’ Political Identity with the Great Spirit

Abstract

College students’ political identity is crucial to national ideological security and the orientation of youth development. The great spirit of the founding of the Communist Party of China holistically promotes the generation and strengthening of college students’ political identity by cultivating cognitive foundations, building value consensus, strengthening belief foundations, and externalizing practical responsibility. Based on the analytical framework of the formation and development law of ideological and moral character (“knowledge-emotion-will-action”), this paper systematically explains the internal logic and practical approach of how the great spirit of the founding of the Communist Party of China empowers college students’ political identity. From four aspects—curriculum carriers, cultural immersion, role model demonstration, and practical transformation—it constructs a four-in-one educational path of “cognition-emotion-will-behavior,” deepening the theoretical understanding of the intrinsic relationship between spiritual education and political identity, and providing a feasible path reference for innovating the model of ideological and political education in colleges and universities.