"Curriculum-based or ideology-based": An action research on China's curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness...

This study addresses the prevalent challenges in curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness education specifically focusing on the issues of insufficient understanding and exploration of curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness elements by Chinese college teachers in the use of second language writing textbooks, as well as the monotonous teaching activities and content models. In response to these challenges, a two-cycle action research was conducted to integrate second language writing teaching into curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness education within the framework of Activity Theory. Through teacher observations, interviews, and reflections from both teachers and students, findings were found that: 1) teachers should pay attention to practicing the compilation principles and concepts of textbook compilers, and deeply explore the ideological and political elements of unit themes and contents according to their principles and concepts; 2) the construction of curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness community for similar courses, especially the construction of virtual community, is the urgent need for teachers, and is also an effective way to select ideological and political materials; 3) the construction of curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness courses should be implemented in all dimensions of professional teaching with planning, forming a systematic teaching mode of curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness courses. The findings of this research offer valuable insights into the integration of foreign language education and curriculum-based ideology and virtuous awareness education, with the overarching goal of fostering value shaping, ability building, and knowledge imparting.