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Study On Chinese Farmers' Vocational Education At The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century

Posted on:2004-01-13Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360125462018Subject:Agricultural Economics and Management
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With the acceleration of China's socialism modernization, the issue of farmers is gaining inconcern and study from all fields of theory. Set against China's national economy and socialdevelopment at the beginning of the 21st century, directed at the remarkable problems inagricultural economy and social development in rural areas, with farmers' education in mind andtheir vocational education as the study object, this paper studies the present situation of farmers,the characteristics of their requirement of vocational education, the provision of vocationaleducation by governments and society to farmers after in-depth investigation, so as to grasp andanalyze the paradox between the supply and demand of farmers' vocational education; by applyingpedagogy, economics and sociology, to explore the theoretical foundation and the basic teachingprinciples, put forward the concept and objective of farmers' vocational education, innovate theeducation system by establishing a new system of multi-form and multi-stratification in vocationaleducation, with the participation of the government, society and non-governmental forces and thegoal of enabling farmers to become rich, flourishing agricultural economy and promoting generalimprovement of rural society. Next, it brings forth 5 effective teaching patterns after analyzing theaffecting factors, and proposes to strengthen and perfect the system of investment based on theanalysis of the investment system in vocational education practice. At the end of the paper, acomparison and contrast is made between China's education movement in rural areas in the earlytwentieth century and farmers' education status in developed countries so as to broaden study viewand acquire experience. This paper contains eight chapters. Chapter 1expounds the basic idea of the study, including the background and the basis, studypurpose and significance, and studies farmers' vocational education at home and abroad and theoriginality of the paper. Chapter 2 discusses the present basic situation and development objective of China's nationaleconomy, the characteristics of farmers, countryside and agricultural development in particular,through a large number of literature, material and investigation data. It comes up with newrequirements on farmers' vocational education, and, after meticulous analysis of the changes infarmers' finance, educational level and profession, clarifies the basic condition of the subject -farmer and confirms the study subject of farmers' vocational pedagogy. Chapter 3 discusses systematically the revolution and development of farmers' ideas underthe guidance of pedagogy, economics and sociology and clarifies the concept of farmer, thecontent and objective of their vocational education. It also discusses the theoretical basis of thevocational education, including theory of Marxist education, human capital and social sustainabledevelopment, and the basic teaching factors, features and laws according to the peculiarity of thevocational education process. With the perspective of interdisciplinary research, basic concepts on farmers and farmers'vocational education is elaborated; educational viewpoints on vocation with "production education,life education and ecological education" as the objective for farmers' education has been putforward; theoretical basis and objective for innovation in farmers' vocational education has beenconstructed and at the same time, educational and teaching activities for farmers can be effectivelyguided and promoted by systematic analysis on farmers' vocational education. Chapter 4 expounds Chinese farmers' educational tendency and features including types andstructure of demand, stratification structure and organization of education and teaching,summarizes the current status of educational supply of the state and social organization, finds theparadox of supply and demand in education and makes clear of the focus and objective ofeducati...
Keywords/Search Tags:Beginning of the 21st Century, Chinese farmers' vocational education, supply and demand, system and pattern
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