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    An Era of Transformation and the Mission of Universities
  • An Era of Transformation and the Mission of Universities
    The Comprehensiveness of Education
    WANG Xiqin1,2
    2023, 39(09): 3-5,8. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.02
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    The fundamental issue of education is the relationship between individual development and social development. Education develops in a system and aligns with the country’s progress. The Communist Party of China (CPC) and our country, China, advocate the unification of all-round development in individuals and society, emphasizing the comprehensiveness of education as the value orientation of education in China. In contrast, the educational ideals prevalent in the Western context, particularly illustrated by the United States, exhibit a unilateral approach that diverges from the principles upheld by the CPC and China. In today’s times, we need to consider the missions of universities from the standpoint of educational comprehensiveness and establish a more comprehensive education system. We must strengthen our confidence in education, adhere to the value orientation of comprehensiveness, reject simple “individualism” and “socialism”, and advocate “the unity of all-round development of human beings and the overall progress of society”. Furthermore, it is imperative to conduct an in-depth analysis of the logical framework of education, resist the stagnation at the level of “atomization of the individual” and “general education for cultivating citizens”, and call for the integration of “a person’s holistic attributes (i.e., moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor-related) and a person’s multifaceted role (i.e., encompassing both utilitarian and transcendence aspects)”.
  • An Era of Transformation and the Mission of Universities
    The Country-Strengthening Mission and Strategic Prospect of First-Class Universities
    DU Jiangfeng
    2023, 39(09): 6-8. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.03
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    Throughout history, numerous world-class universities have resonated at the same frequency as the nation’s development in the torrent of the times, providing much strategic support. In the new era, it is urgently needed to intensely discuss how modern first-class universities should take the initiative to strengthen the country and conduct strategic foresight. Taking Zhejiang University’s school-running experience as an example, first-class universities should seize the opportunity of era change and strive to give theoretical guidance and foster knowledge innovation through improving the quality of independent training of top-notch creative talents, forging strategic-leading forces of scientific and technological innovation, and attracting talents with global academic influence. These measures contribute to strengthening the nation’s education power, achieving technological success, and developing a quality workforce, toward the ultimate goal of further advancing social development and human civilization.
  • An Era of Transformation and the Mission of Universities
    An Era of Transformation and the Mission of Universities
    Michael Spence AC; YAN Chunhua; Brian P. Schmidt; SHI Yigong; Luis Manuel dos Anjos Ferreira; SONG Yonghua
    2023, 39(09): 9-16. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.04
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    • The 40th Anniversary of China Association of Higher Education
  • The 40th Anniversary of China Association of Higher Education
    Promoting High-Quality Development of Higher Education Through High-Level Educational Research: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of China Association of Higher Education
    MA Luting1,2
    2023, 39(09): 17-20. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.05
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    This overview summarizes the process of the association’s development and staging and the author’s working experience in this course to celebrate the 40th anniversary of China Association of Higher Education in an academic manner. China Association of Higher Education has led the development direction of higher education research in China, promoting the scientific development of higher education through academic research throughout the past years. In the future, Chinese higher education research should exert its function by producing powerful ideas and theories to promote the high-quality development of higher education and the construction of the educational leading country. To this end, the association has been organizing theoretical research on the conceptual understanding of good education and good educational development, the relationship between high-quality education development and high-quality education systems, as well as proposing practical research on opening up new tracks for development and building an independent knowledge system, to prioritize theoretical development in higher education research.
    • Education Rule of Law
  • Education Rule of Law
    Reflections on the Compilation of Education Code
    YE Qilian1,2; JING Anlei3
    2023, 39(09): 21-25,33. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.06
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    Education Code is the advanced form of legal norms in education, which can represent a nation’s degree of civilization and educational development. Compiling Education Code is the essential requirement for realizing the modernization of educational governance system and governance capacity, as well as the necessary guarantee and effective path to accelerate the building of a strong country in education. Compiling Education Code should be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and his important expositions on education, fully implement the CPC’s educational policy, act on the basis of the educational legal system that has been formed, balance the national right to education and the citizen’s right to education, and reflect the main theme line of lifelong education. We should also strengthen the completeness of the education legal system, maintain the unity of education legal relations, reflect the epochal nature of education legal norms, and highlight the professionalism of the compilation of Education Code.
  • Education Rule of Law
    The Risks and Regulations of Overseas High-Level Universities Independently Running Schools in China
    LIU Pu1; ZHANG Jingke2
    2023, 39(09): 26-33. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.07
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    To allow Hainan Free Trade Port to introduce foreign high-level universities to independently run schools in China is an important measure to highlight the advantages of Hainan Free Trade Port in comprehensively deepening reform in the education field and testing the benefits of opening up at the highest level, and also an important strategic deployment of high-quality opening up of China’s higher education. Introducing world-class universities for independently running schools can contribute to China’s strategic goal of education power. Overseas high-level universities can break through the original institutional constraints and enjoy a high degree of autonomy in school running. As this is a new kind of education, there are risks emerging in the process of school running, such as educational sovereignty, economic security, ideological security, school running quality, laws and regulations, cultural conflicts, intellectual property rights, and so on. Risk management should emphasize the leading role of the government in designing regulations, providing breakthroughs in institutional mechanisms while fully leveraging the role of legal regulation, and constructing specific legal systems for overseas high-level universities to run schools independently in China based on different types of risks.
    • College Entrance Examination Reform
  • College Entrance Examination Reform
    Does the New College Entrance Examination Reform Make Students’ Major Choices Match Better: Based on the Data of NCSS
    JIAO Yicheng1; SHI Qiuheng2
    2023, 39(09): 34-40. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.08
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    It is of great significance for cultivating diverse talents by increasing students’ right to choose majors. Therefore, the new college entrance examination reform has carried out a series of institutional arrangements to make students’ major choice match better. However, its actual effect needs to be further studied. Based on the data of NCSS, this study estimates the reform’s impact on students’ major choices using the DID method among first-year students in two provinces with new college entrance examination reform. We found that the reform effectively helped students get better results, especially the disadvantaged students (i.e., female, rural, and low SES background). At the same time, such a beneficial effect is significant in general universities and colleges, but nonsignificant in the “Double First-Class” construction universities that have widely implemented large-category major enrollment reforms. We suggest that high school should strengthen their career planning education to help students choose their major scientifically; universities and colleges should perfect the professional education system and improve the quality of professional education according to their characteristics in education.
  • College Entrance Examination Reform
    Evaluation of the Effect of Holistic Evaluation Admission: Empirical Research Based on the Perspective of Talent Selection and Training
    WANG Jiangman1,2; HE Peiyun1; HUANG Bin1; YUN Ruxian1
    2023, 39(09): 41-47. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.09
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    This paper uses the data of multiple tracking surveys of students in a university in Jiangsu Province, and uses Propensity Score Matching to explore the differences in academic performance and extracurricular performance between the holistic evaluation students and the general enrollment students after entering the university, as well as the characteristics of such differences with the increase of the time studying at the university. The study found that male students, urban students, students whose parents have higher levels of education, and students with lower scores in the college entrance examination are more likely to enroll through holistic evaluation. After entering the university, the holistic evaluation students’ academic performance and extracurricular performance are better than those of general students, but this advantage will weaken with the increase of time studying at the university. Heterogeneity analysis found that the differences in academic performance and extracurricular performance between holistic evaluation students and general enrollment students were more prominent among rural students. Based on this, universities should establish rural special plans, strengthen the cultivation of students’ personalities through holistic evaluation, and focus on tracking evaluation to build an integrated mechanism from selection, training to tracking, and promote the cultivation of more innovative talents with comprehensive development.
    • Research and Exploration
  • Research and Exploration
    Out of the Higher Education Research’s “Big Trees but Sparse Fruit” Trap: A Localization Strategy
    LIU Zhentian; XIAO Yu
    2023, 39(09): 48-55. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.10
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    “Trees without fruit” or “big trees but sparse fruit” is a description of the apparent prosperity of China’s higher education research despite the scarcity in the core; this issue is mainly due to the long-term research relying on Western paradigm orientation. Localization is an effective way out of this trap. Localization is not only a transcendence of the single Western paradigm, but also a research paradigm with Chinese characteristics generated from the accommodation between the East and the West and their “mutual transformation”. To realize the localization transformation of higher education research, the key is to do two things well: In terms of top-level design, we should adhere to the diversification of evaluation standards, enrichment of evaluation carriers, long-term of evaluation cycle and localization of evaluation elements in China; In practical exploration, higher education research needs to establish a diverse, open, and confident research team that directly deals with real-life problems.
  • Research and Exploration
    Appreciate Beauty in Seeking Truth: A Study of Aesthetic Experience in College Students’ Professional Curriculum Learning
    ZHANG Xianlu
    2023, 39(09): 56-62. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.11
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    This research adopted a qualitative research method to study the aesthetic experience of college students in their professional curriculum learning. During the process of professional curriculum learning, results showed that college students experienced the beauty of laws, unknowns, dialogues, transcendence, and life through the processes of epiphany, mind wandering, and forgetting the self. These aesthetic experiences and professional curriculum learning formed a virtuous cycle. As an aesthetic subject, college students’ learning goals, state of mind, passion, and engagement, as well as their understanding of the meaning of learning affected the generation and deepening of aesthetic experiences when studying professional curriculum. Professional curriculum learning, as an aesthetic object, contains aesthetic resources in three aspects: curriculum content, classroom teaching, and evaluation mode. To enhance the aesthetic experiences of college students in their professional curriculum learning, it is necessary to guide them to develop a strong desire for exploration and non-utility learning impulses in the process of combining scientific research with professional curriculum learning. We also need to promote the continuous improvement of professional curriculums in terms of curriculum content, classroom teaching, and evaluation mode, highlighting the aesthetic sense.
    • Academic Degree and Graduate Education
  • Academic Degree and Graduate Education
    The Impact and Implications of Industrial Development on the Structure of Graduate Education Disciplines in the United States: An Integrated Perspective Based on Industrial Structure and Expected Income Changes
    JIANG Shunteng; JIN Tianyu; LIU Huiqin
    2023, 39(09): 63-71. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.12
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    Using Granger causality tests and first-order autoregressive distribution lag models, this study concludes that there is a long-term stable cointegration relationship between industrial structure and the structure of master’s and doctoral disciplines in the United States. Various motives drive the resizing in the master’s and doctoral disciplines; changes in industrial structure are Granger causes of changes in the structure of master’s disciplines. The change in expected income has a noticeable impact on the graduate scale of American graduate students in many disciplines; such influence is more significant among doctoral students. The interactive relationship between the U.S. market and discipline structure has the following implications for the development of graduate education in China: the structure of disciplines in China should combine the forecast analysis of the demand for talents at different levels and types with industrial development. The structure of master’s and doctoral disciplines should be optimized by integrating national logic, academic logic, and market logic in order to create a long-term dynamic adjustment mechanism of the discipline structure of graduate education combining the state, university, and market.
  • Academic Degree and Graduate Education
    Research on the Operational Logic and Unexpected Effects of Postgraduate Education Quality Regulation in China
    LI Yonggang1; LI Haisheng2
    2023, 39(09): 72-79. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.13
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    Affected by the government’s reform of “delegate powers, improve regulation and strengthen services”, the postgraduate education field has started quality regulation for nearly ten years. By carrying out institutionalized evaluation and quality accountability, the education management department has greatly stimulated the motivation of colleges and universities to use the compulsory bureaucratic system, the highly competitive reward system, the project system, and the knockout system; these changes in turn lead to ritualistic behaviors in the management of basic units, supervisor’ strategic actions, and utilitarian learning methods for graduate students. This kind of hierarchical operation mechanism of postgraduate education quality supervision causes tensions in the relationship between external quality regulation and internal autonomy of universities, between explicit supervision and implicit quality, and between quality assurance and quality improvement. In the future, the quality regulation of postgraduate education should be oriented to quality improvement, establish a risk-based and negotiated quality regulation model, build a postgraduate education supporting management system in colleges and universities, and strengthen the quality voice and action autonomy of basic units.
    • Comparative Education
  • Comparative Education
    How to Cultivate Doctoral Students Based on Project System in the UK: Take the Cultivation of Doctoral Students in ESRC Grand Union DTP as an Example
    BAO Shuimei; JIANG Yue; ZHANG Guoxu
    2023, 39(09): 80-87. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.14
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    Taking the doctoral student training in the DTP of the UK ESRC as an example, this paper analyzes the practice of cultivating top innovative talents based on the project system in the UK，and finds that its basic mode is as follows: multi-institutions jointly form a doctoral training community, aiming to cultivate academic or industrial elites who can solve complex and comprehensive problems; the enrollment is based on open competition, simultaneous application, and targeted funding; the training process relies on cutting-edge scientific research projects and highlights students’ development needs. This mode has the typical characteristics of comprehensive problem orientation, interdisciplinarity, collaborativeness, practicality, and strong incentives, but it also faces the limitations of limited cultivation scale, intensified competition among institutions, and rigid project operation and management. We can learn from the experience of the UK and set up doctoral education projects based on major national strategic needs. Specifically, the key to implementing the doctoral project training mode is to break the disciplinary and organizational barriers, implement the collaborative training of doctoral students, and promote the transition of the evaluation paradigm of doctoral innovation ability from peer review to cross-border review.
  • Comparative Education
    Common Interest or Individual Priority: Controversy and Reflection on the Reform of Academic Evaluation of Japanese University Teachers
    ZHANG Xilin
    2023, 39(09): 88-94. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.15
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    Affected by the uncertainty and instability of social development, especially under the urgent need of improving the country’s comprehensive national strength and economic recovery after the pandemic, the Japanese government pays more attention to the quality and innovative contribution of university teachers’ academic production. From a practical perspective, Japan’s reform of teacher academic evaluation based on organizational orientation, competition, and a new accountability structure has failed to meet its expectations for academic revitalization and future social development, leading to significant controversy in various sectors of Japanese society. From the perspective of deep-seated reasons, the contradictions between the concentration of policy choices and the dispersion of academic autonomy, between research and teaching, between quantitative evaluation and research diversity, and between national identity and international comparability have always been the focus of controversy that dominates the transformation of its mechanism. Therefore, dynamically balancing the complexity of the value relationship between individual priority and common interest, between academic logic and market logic, between openness and restriction are considered to be the internal development logic of the evolution of the academic evaluation mechanism of Japanese university teachers.
    • Vocational Education
  • Vocational Education
    Role Positioning, Core Competencies, and Training Paths of Field Engineers from the Perspective of Technological Industrialization
    WANG Yanan; CHENG Jun; SHAO Jiandong
    2023, 39(09): 95-101. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.16
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    Technology industrialization is a process in which new technologies continue forming industries through research, development, application, and diffusion. According to the different forms of technology, this process can be divided into three stages: science technicalization, technology productization, and product commercialization. In the process of science technicalization, field engineers play the role of supporting research and development; in the process of technology productization, they are the order maintainer of the production site; in the process of product commercialization, they are the problem solvers at the service. Field engineers should have the ability to apply technology to solve complex problems on-site, the ability to integrate knowledge using fieldwork practice as the logic main line, and the ability to innovate academically with practical knowledge as the core. The innovative path of field engineer talent training mode should: rely on the joint building of a talent training system by field engineer colleges and enterprises; build a structured “dual-ability” teacher team that integrates the training of industry, education, and technology from schools and enterprises to enhance talent cultivation capabilities across borders; and encourage schools and enterprises to jointly carry out modern apprenticeship training and collaborate to innovate the mode of talent cultivation.
  • Vocational Education
    Analysis on the Teaching Concept of Professional Teaching Resource Library for Vocational Education
    HUANG Huiting; ZHUANG Rongxia; ZHAO Zhiqun
    2023, 39(09): 102-108. https://doi.org/10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2023.09.17
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    The construction of Professional Teaching Resource Library (RL) for Vocational Education is of great significance for improving the quality of vocational education. This article constructs a framework based on classical learning theory for analyzing teaching concepts of RL types and reasons of their changes at different times by investigating the designers, constructors, and users. This research has found that the teaching conception of RL was attempted to shift from a “teaching center” to a “learning center” in its policy documents, but the existing RL mostly adopts behaviorism and cognitivism concepts. Structured knowledge and skill points are the main teaching content in RL; however, it lacks space for the meaning-making process, which indicates a mismatch between its functional positioning of “Able to learn” and actual teaching concepts. Designers and constructors of RL have a vague understanding of the “Able to Learn” requirements, which creates conflicts between its functional positioning and teaching conception. It is recommended to construct RL based on advanced and appropriate teaching and internet conceptions (e.g., Web 2.0), expand the platform’s meaning-making space, and increase situational learning resources. Teachers should strengthen their learning and utilization of modern vocational learning and digital teaching concepts.