With the deepening of China's physical education curriculum reform, the construction of the thought-politics of physical education courses in colleges and universities has attracted great attention from the education sector and has been a hot issue of disciplinary research. The index system of physical education courses' thinking and political elements enriches the connotation of the thinking and political elements of physical education courses, which is conducive to determining the content of the thinking and political elements of courses related to each physical education discipline and accomplishing the goal of thinking and political education. This paper uses two research methods, namely literature and comparative analysis, to analyse and study the syllabus of the general gymnastics course in ten physical education colleges and universities across China, to explore the fit between the "curriculum thinking and politics" and the general gymnastics course, to explore the thinking and politics elements in gymnastics, and to complete the integration of thinking and politics elements in gymnastics. This course is designed to explore the integration of the ideological and political elements in gymnastics, and to complete the integration of the ideological and political elements in the teaching content, teaching process, teaching methods and teaching evaluation.

Ruoqi Li. The construction of an index system for the ideological elements of physical education courses in physical education colleges based on a mixed research approach. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 17: 85-89. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2023.051713.

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