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The Theory And Practice Of Technical Education At Undergraduate Level

Posted on:2008-10-03Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J G XiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360212991426Subject:Vocational and Technical Education
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Recent years, with the rapid development of higher education in China, the total enrollment of higher education in China ranks first with the number of 230,000,000. However, with the expansion of higher education in China, it still can't meet the demand of the social and economic development. The structural contradiction of the human resources is so prominent, which is arisen by the lack of technical and technological. Many 4-year higher educational institutions, especially the new 4-year universities upgraded from 3-year higher vocational and technical college develop into Technical Education at Undergraduate Level (TEUL) which aims to train advanced technical and applied talents in order to relax the structure conflict of labor force. These universities also face many difficult problems such as the theoretical foundation, the essence and characteristic of TEUL. How to determine the corresponding teaching objectives according to the characteristic of technical education and how to cultivate the qualified technology-applied professionals are the problems that are explored by them. The paper attempts to give an interpretation on the background, theoretical basis and the exploration on the practice of TEUL on the basis of comparative, interdisciplinary empirical and systematic research after the systematic research.The first chapter: Introduction. Based on the literatures on TEUL in China and abroad, this part prescribes the definition of TEUL, proposes proposes the issue of its development under current social and economic environment, and states the content and research methods of this study.The second chapter: theoretical basis of TEUL. This part mainly analyzes the ideological, social and educational basis of TEUL in a systematic way, and proposes that TEUL is the rational choice of current situation.The third chapter: connotation and features of TEUL. This part states that TEUL is the technological education at degree level, which is different from general college education and engineering education, and also differs from technical education on other levels. The features of TEUL are also discussed in this part.The fourth chapter: international comparative study of TEUL. This part mainly discusses the leading features of some representative colleges which adopt TEUL, such as Fachhochschule, Japanese university of technogical science and Taiwan University of applied science and technology, as well as British Former Polytechnics.The fifth chapter: training mode of TEUL. Based on the analysis of TEUL, this part states the curriculum, training objective, training plan and training methods, and proposes the training model of TEUL.The sixth chapter: the insurance system for developing TEUL .Based on the analysis of the Chinese present education system ,the further research is focused on the management and insurance system of TEUL and put forward some policy comments and suggestions on developing TEUL.
Keywords/Search Tags:newly constructed university, technological talents, technological education system, Technical Education at Undergraduate Level
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