政治教育的内涵及其在思想政治教育中的应有地位

历史上任何统治阶级，总是要通过各种方式和途径把自己的政治思想注入到社会中去，用以支配人们的思想和行动，实现统治的目标。政治教育是其中一种重要方式。政治教育是教育根据统治阶级和受教育的需要，有目的有计划地采用直接或间接的手段传递政治化以形式和发展受教育的政治素质进而促进社会明的社会实践活动。政治教育是思想政治教育中的核心内容和重要组成部分。在新时期，应避免政治教育的失位，也要防止政治教育的泛化。科学理解政治教育的内涵，正确认识和区分政治教育与政治社会化、政治化、思想教育、道德教育、人教育的区别与联系，以全面加强和改进思想政治工作。

The Connotation of Political Education and Its necessary Status in Ideal and political Education

In history,any ruling class always crams its own political ideas into the society by various forms and ways,aiming at dominating people's ideas and realizing the ruling targets.Political education is the important one of them.Political education is educators'social practice which purposefully transmits political culture directly or indirectly to form and develop the receiver's political quality,then promotes the social civilization,and all these should accord to the necessities of ruling classes and the receivers.Political education is the key content and also important component of ideal and political education.In the new times,we should avoid the lack or excessive extension of political education.We should comprehend the connotation of political education scientifically,know the relationship and differences among political education and political socialization,political culture,ideal education,moral education,humanistic education,aiming at reinforcing and improving ideal and political education.