Future research in ideological and political education requires a different research paradigm.Discourse transformation is a comprehensive interface,a holistic path,a"lens"to observe the changes of ideological and political education in reality,and a new framework to study ideological and political education.The crossover integration of discourse theory and transformation theory in natural and humanities disciplines shows the potential for paradigm innovation.The research of ideological and political education presents a new form different from the traditional research,and produces the research methods that overflow the boundaries of ideological and political education,such as the narrative research method of subject history,the text visualization research method of typology,and the research method that combines the external characteristics of huge data with the internal power structure,and expands the current vision of ideological and political education research.