Keywords
Ideological and political education
Smart classrooms
Teaching quality
Improvement paths
Submitted : 2025-12-13
Accepted : 2025-12-28
Published : 2026-01-12
Abstract
In promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of ideological and political education, smart classrooms face the problem of declining teaching quality caused by technology. Existing research mostly focuses on technological innovation while ignoring ritual disruption in teaching. Based on the interaction ritual chain theory, this paper analyzes problems in scenarios, emotions, focuses, and symbols, and proposes improvement paths from four dimensions: teaching field, emotional energy, students’ attention, and symbol system. It aims to bridge the gap between technology and values and assist the high-quality development of ideological and political education.
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