Group 1 - The core issue is how the discipline of ideological and political education can expand its boundaries while maintaining its essence, emphasizing the need for a dialectical unity between "guarding boundaries" and "cross-disciplinary integration" for high-quality development [1] Group 2 - "Guarding boundaries" is essential for establishing the discipline's foundation, focusing on the strategic choice of ideological, political, and practical aspects, and creating a recognizable knowledge framework centered on the formation and development of ideological concepts, political views, and moral norms [2] - The core value of the discipline is to cultivate virtue, which should guide all academic activities and practical teaching, ensuring alignment with the fundamental question of "what kind of person to cultivate, how to cultivate, and for whom to cultivate" [2] - A self-aware method selection mechanism should be established to protect the discipline's characteristics, avoiding the simple transplantation of methods from other disciplines and fostering a unique methodological system [2] Group 3 - "Cross-disciplinary integration" serves as a driving force for the discipline's development, requiring a proactive fusion based on established boundaries, with a clear understanding of the subjectivity and purpose of the integration [3] - A value-based screening mechanism should be established to evaluate and filter interdisciplinary knowledge, ensuring that the integration remains aligned with the core mission of cultivating virtue and ideological attributes [3] - The integration process should rely on a solid disciplinary core and mature theoretical framework to decode, digest, and reconstruct external knowledge, ultimately forming new knowledge and paradigms that enhance the discipline's explanatory power and practical effectiveness [3] Group 4 - Achieving a dialectical unity between guarding boundaries and cross-disciplinary integration requires adherence to the guiding position of Marxism and the fundamental task of cultivating virtue, while also responding to contemporary challenges with an open attitude [4] - The discipline should engage in cross-disciplinary research, such as "political education + psychology" and "political education + sociology," while ensuring that explorations do not deviate from the essence of the discipline [4] - A cross-disciplinary evaluation system should be constructed to assess both the maintenance of disciplinary boundaries and the effectiveness of cross-disciplinary innovations, ensuring that the discipline does not lose its fundamental characteristics in the process of open integration [4]