Development Of The National Institutes School Characteristics

With the internationalization, popularization, and marketization of high education in China, the competition between universities gradually turns serious, and the ethnic universities and other common universities appear the phenomenon of characteristic convergence or de-characteristic, which has become one of theoretical and practical problems attracted attentions of various social circles. The characteristic research and construction of ethnic university not only relate to the educational level and quality, but also the successfully development and trend of ethnic university. On the basis of other fields'theories, this thesis made a case study on ethnic universities of Inner Mongolia, and the studies on theories and counter measures of ethnic universities by the means of anthropology and sociology.Firstly, for not having formed commonly approved authentic theories about characteristic development of universities, this thesis fulfilled the theoretical research work by the theories and methods of philosophy, cultural cognitive psychology, two-natures of ethnic education, inside and outside regulations of education, ecological sites, and chaotic theories. The characteristic forming factors will be divided into internal constructive factors and external influential factors, for their different functions of in the characteristic development of ethnic universities. The modern and ethnic characteristics are clearly illustrated as core contents in the characteristic development of ethnic university. One hypothesis is theoretically deducted that characteristic of ethnic university is reasonably developing under the internal and external regulations, between the interactions of internal and external characteristic factors. Three regulations are inducted as the regulation of characteristic persistent developing, regulation of characteristic route-selected developing, and regulation of characteristic routing-process developing. Secondly, for there are not deeply academic researches, and nearly a margin in theoretical and practical researches about characteristic developing of ethnic universities, this thesis made a case study on ethnic universities of Inner Mongolia, making this study on the basis of qualitative and quantitative researching to guarantee its creditability and effectiveness. Basing on reviewing the developing history, inducting natures and features, and SWOT analysis of advantage and disadvantage in ethnic universities of Inner Mongolia, the conclusions of this case study is like the followings. The ethnic university has not only three basic social functions of talent cultivation, scientific study and social service, but also the political and culture-transmitting functions. In characteristic development of ethnic universities, the advantages accompanying with disadvantages essentially display in subjects, teachers, students, bilingual teachings and so on. By the field researching methods, such as observation, questionnaire, interview etc., the quantitative research is made to study the status of characteristic development of ethnic university, including the outstanding degree of characteristic forming factors, involving degree of teachers and students, and the values of characteristic development.At last, on account of case study and theoretical researching about characteristic development of ethnic universities, the counter-measure study is made, and the conclusions are like the followings:the characteristic developing strategies should be selected according to the regulations of characteristic developing. Two categories strategies are recommend as the strategies for characteristic expanding in external space, and the strategies for characteristic autonomous developing within internal system.