Abstract: Curriculum ideological and political education is the core of the modern higher education teaching reform In order to better understand the current situation of curriculum ideological and political education research in China, through collecting the relevant literature data included in CSSCI database and CSSCI source journal database in CNKI from 2000 to 2021, CiteSpace is used to draw the knowledge map to analyze the literature from the perspectives of paper published volume trend, core authors, main research institutions, main cited journals and papers, keywords and mutation words Four research themes are identified: the connotation and characteristics of curriculum ideological and political education, the relationship between curriculum ideological and political education and ideological and political courses, the obstacles to the realization of curriculum ideological and political education and the practice path of curriculum ideological and political education The frontier and trend of curriculum ideological and political education research are sorted out, and it also points out that how to give full play to the dominant position of teachers in curriculum ideological and political education, the specific practice of curriculum ideological and political education in professional courses and the construction of the evaluation system will become the focus of this field.

Key words: curriculum ideological and political education, literature review, knowledge map