Since the establishment of the discipline of ideological and political education,the research on the laws of ideological and political education has made great progress,and it has also encountered the bottleneck period of homogenization research.In the new era,the study of the laws of ideological and political education urgently needs to enter a scientific stage.To achieve it,efforts should be made from three aspects:examining the purpose for studying the laws of ideological and political education,exploring the methods for studying the laws of ideological and political education,and summarizing the tasks of studying the laws of ideological and political education,so as to define the domain for studying the laws of ideological and political education; investigating the four research ideas of abstracting laws from contradictions,inducing laws from features,extracting laws from goals,and dividing laws from elements,to clarify the way for studying the laws of ideological and political education; innovating research ideas,finding entry points for research,and establishing reasonable research expectations,to grasp the trend of research on the laws of ideological and political education.