A Study On Doctoral Training Mode In The Research Universities In China

The doctoral training model is a specified training model with stability and systematization formed in the long process of educational practice in order for the doctoral training aim. This specified training model is a system owning a great number of elements connected by certain ways. It includes the elements like selecting students, the curriculum and learning assessment, doctoral thesis guidance, doctoral thesis evaluation and reply. This dissertation is around the theme of "the doctoral training model", by considering the doctoral training model's guidelines, the doctoral training aim and the training elements (selecting students, the curriculum and learning assessment, doctoral thesis guidance, doctoral thesis evaluation and reply) vertically, investigates the characteristics of doctoral training evolution chronologically, and discusses the status and characteristics of the doctoral training model in British and American research universities spatially. Furthermore, it refers to the experience of theirs and analyses doctoral training model of research universities in China.Through the study, this dissertation comes to the major conclusions that: firstly, from late 1970s till 1980s, when instrumentalism was the guideline, the doctoral training model in China put the country's planning and the society's developing in the first place, and ease the problem of the brain fault in universities and institutions to some degree. With the establishment of market economy system, people thought highly of subjectivity. Subjectivity education gradually became the guideline of the doctoral training model in China. But the idea of the subjectivity education didn't mean the extinction of instrumentalism; they can coexist in some period to be the multi-guideline of doctoral training model in China.Secondly, research universities in China see "the cultivation of doctors' innovation" as aim currently. Through research subjects in educational practice, doctoral training model will be reformed by developing many elements (selecting students, the curriculum and learning assessment, doctoral thesis guidance, doctoral thesis evaluation and reply). Thirdly, according to the interviews and questionnaire among doctoral tutors and doctors, the research universities in China should pay more attention to solving the following problems in the process of the doctoral training model reformation: increasing the proportion of Master-Doctor combined program graduate students and students for a doctor's degree without taking an entrance exam when selecting students; avoiding comprehensive examination becoming the form in the curriculum and learning assessment; enhancing the academic communication between students and tutors, realize the system of "two-tutors" and "tutor group" completely in doctoral thesis guidance.