Author(s)

Gao Ya ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College, Shanghai, 200438, China

Corresponding Author

Gao Ya

ABSTRACT

Curriculum ideological and political education is a crucial measure for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue and cultivating talents. The Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concept, being student-centered and outcome-oriented, highly aligns with the educational logic of curriculum ideological and political education, which is student-centered and literacy-goal-oriented. This paper takes the Pipeline Engineering Principles course for the Municipal Engineering Technology major in a higher vocational college as an example. Based on the backward design principle of the OBE concept, it effectively unifies the curriculum ideological and political education goals with the index points of graduation requirements, constructing a three-in-one course objective system integrating knowledge, ability, and values. By deeply exploring the ideological and political elements embedded in municipal water supply, drainage, and comprehensive pipeline projects, typical teaching cases are designed to integrate these elements, organically merging teaching objectives with ideological and political goals. This model achieves the organic integration of professional knowledge instruction and curriculum ideological and political construction, effectively enhancing students' professional skills, engineering literacy, and sense of patriotism and social responsibility. It provides a replicable practical paradigm for the ideological and political education reform of engineering courses in higher vocational education.

KEYWORDS

OBE, Curriculum Ideological and Political Education, Teaching Case Design, Higher Vocational Education

CITE THIS PAPER

Gao Ya. Case Design Research on Curriculum Ideological and Political Education Based on OBE Concept in Pipeline Engineering Principles. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2026). Vol. 9, No.2, 132-139. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2026.090217.

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