A Study On Modernization Of Undergraduate Programs In Institutions Of Higher Learning

This dissertation takes the modernization of undergraduate programs in institutions of higher learning as an objective thing, in the perspective of combining theory into practice. It studies comprehensively, profoundly and systematically, the theoretical settings, the motive force, key elements, implementation and characteristics, etc. of the modernization, in an investigation method, an overall method, and fact analysis and value evaluation.Firstly, some connotations concerning modernization and modernization of beings, curriculum and program, and undergraduate programs are classified and defined. The essence, the characteristics of the undergraduate programs, and the social and historical background under modernization are probed, and the significance, train of thought of this research are exposed.Secondly, the modernization theories are regarded as the theoretical settings to study modernization of undergraduate programs. The theories of social modernization, of education modernization, of curriculum modernization, are discussed in detail to provide theoretical thinking and guideline for the research of modernization of undergraduate programs in the institutions of higher learning.Thirdly, the dynamics of modernization of the undergraduate programs is discussed with the method of contradiction analysis and the principle of system dynamics. It is to analyze the basic contradiction, general model of development, structures of dynamic system and dynamic environmental system to the modernization of undergraduate programs in the institutions of higher learning.Fourthly, it is to analyze the modernization of the goal factor and the content factor of the undergraduate programs, and to construct modernized programs in the perspective of static and ideal state, and to dissect the structural elements and the optimization of undergraduate programs in the institutions of higher learning in China.Fifthly, the dissertation expounds the implementation modernization of the undergraduate programs, analyzes the dominant theory, describes the modernized curriculum presentation and the modernized curriculum implementation field, and the programs evaluation as implementation feedback in the institutions of higher learning.Sixthly, it explains the characteristics of the modernized programs and tries to provide some valuable apocalypses so as to modernize the undergraduate programs in the institutions of higher learning in China.