Frontiers in Educational Research, 2026, 9(1); doi: 10.25236/FER.2026.090113.
Yongqin Li, Lele Xu, Changgeng Yang, Liyun Wang
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
Against the backdrop of intensifying global oceanic rivalry in the 21st century, fostering university students’ maritime power consciousness has become a strategic imperative for China. As the future backbone of the nation’s maritime undertakings, the enhancement of university students’ maritime power consciousness is essential for consolidating the marine talent base, advancing marine science and technology innovation, safeguarding national marine rights and interests, promoting marine ecological protection, broadening international perspective, and exerting demonstrative social influence. Taking the undergraduate course Oceanography as the vehicle, this study distils and designs specific teaching cases focusing on the cultivation of awareness in five aspects: marine rights and interests, marine economy, marine culture, marine ecological protection, and marine science and technology innovation. By integrating these cases with the core content of the course, this paper aims to achieve the organic unity of knowledge delivery and value inculcation, and guide students through a cognitive and emotional transformation from “knowing the sea” and “loving the sea” to “strengthening the sea”. The resulting framework offers a replicable and scalable paradigm for the construction of a marine awareness education system for college students from the perspective of curriculum ideological and political education.
Maritime Power Consciousness; Oceanography; Ideological and Political Education of Curriculum
Yongqin Li, Lele Xu, Changgeng Yang, Liyun Wang. Research on Oceanography Instruction Based on the Cultivation of Maritime Power Consciousness. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 1: 86-92. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090113.
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