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A Research On Tsai Yuan-pei's Higher Education Management Concept

Posted on:2011-07-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:G WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360332958353Subject:Leadership education
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With the continuous progress of human society and constant improvement of human civilization, education has been playing an increasingly important role in promoting socioeconomic development. Higher education,as a leader of education, shoulders a significant responsibility and a noble mission in political,economic and social construction. At the turn of the century, China's higher education broke the development model under the long-term planning economic system and rolled into the fast track of rapid development. According to the survey made by Guangming Daily, China's higher education institutions of various sorts enrolled 29.79 million students, with a total enrollment rate of 24.2% and an average enrollment of 9086 undergraduates and three-year full-time college students in each school, in addition to an increase of 64500 postgraduates as against the total enrollment of last year. China has become an undisputably world-famous major country of higher education. There is no doubt that, with continuous extension of university campus, steady expansion of school size, successive conduct of teaching reforms,the current higher education in China is in a critical period characteristic of a major reform, great instability and rapid development, with colored flags fluttering and banners flying on campus.However, there lies a hidden serious crisis behind the seemingly prosperous campus:school loan remains steadily on the increase;school level is on the blind rise; the quality of education is apparently decreased; the prospect of employment is becoming increasingly grim; the administrative power is growing increasingly extensive and the academic power decreasingly weak. The Essentials of National Medium and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Project (2010-2020) was promulgated on July 29,2010,and one of its essentials is "Consummation of the Modern Higher Education System, with Chinese Characteristics".In view of this,a breakthrough must be made in the reform of higher education administration, with its focus on the establishment and perfection of the modern higher education system with Chinese characteristics, thus promoting the steady and healthy development of institutions of higher learning.Tsai Yuan-pei is an outstanding representative in the bourgeois reform of China's feudal education, the founder of the new bourgeois educational system and a pioneer of China's modem higher education.While holdingthe post of president of Beijing University, he worked out a series of reform measures whereby to conduct a thorough reform of Beijing University and turn it into one of the country's top universities.His profound management concept of higher education not only led the world at the time, but also provided important theoretical reference and practical guidance for today's higher education reform in our country.This research falls into three parts.Partâ… is Introduction, making clear the significance of this research.More comprehensive and systematic organization and analysis of Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education administration concept and a more complete introduction of his concept are made so as to correct and avoid the misunderstanding of people's thought caused by the lack of understanding people as a whole and thus consummate and enrich the theoretical system of China's education, especially the Chinese higher education management. Meanwhile, from the historical perspective, a comprehensive and systematic analysis of Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept manifested by his experimental reform of education in Beijing University is made to further sum up its inspiration of the reform of China's colleges and universities, providing today's institutions of higher learning with a good example of management and reference.Part Two is the body of this study, including chapters 1-5.Chapter One is about Tsai Yuan-pei's education, making more in-depth and detailed presentation of his growth. It can be seen, from his affiliation with the Imperial Academy of the late Qing Dynasty to his creation of new education, that Tsai Yuan-pei, who fulfilled his ambition in the imperial civil examinations,showed no interest in official career, but committed himself to the new education focusing on innovative ideas. He made a long study tour in Europe and drew extensively on higher education's success in the world, theoretically laying a solid foundation for future educational reform. From the first chief of the Republic of China's Ministry of Education to president of Peking University and then president of National Graduate Institute and Academia Sinica, Tsai Yuan-pei put his educational philosophy into practice. Particularly, his experience in reforming Peking University provides a mirror for the subsequent higher education management.Chapterâ…¡explores the origin of Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept. Through the research, this paper argues that Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept originates from three aspects:1)the accumulation of traditional Chinese culture; 2) the nurture of modern Western ideological culture; and 3) the impact of progressive intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China such as Yan Fu, Hu Shi and Wang Guowei.Chapterâ…¢is concerned with the philosophical basis for Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept.A retrospect of the origin of Tsai Yuan-pei's educational concept and an analysis of his educational practice lead to the belief that the rich content of Tsai Yuan-pei's philosophy of higher education management concept is based upon dualistic view of the world,"freedom of thought and compatibleness of opinion" values and integration of Eastern and Western cultures.Chapter IV deals with the principal elements of Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management, which manifest themselves, through the research, in the following aspects: compatibleness of opinions as a university's educational philosophy, equal stress on the "five educations" as a university's educational goal, management by professors as a university's management system, study of profound knowledge as a university's function, and educational independence as the security of running a university. Chapterâ…¤brings to light Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept in the modern sense, that is, suggestion of the solutions to the problems in modern China's higher education reforms and inspiration of Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education management concept.As the conclusion, Partâ…¢summarizes the benefits generated by Mr. Tsai Yuan-pei's higher education administration concept in the process of China turning big power from a big country in terms of higher education and in the transition of higher education accessible to mass people to the popularization of higher education. This research provides a theoretical basis for contemporary universities to put themselves in a correct and reasonable place, guides the democratic management of contemporary universities significantly and clarifies the concept of the modern university,so as to provide some enlightenment for curbing the increasingly extensive power of educational administration, enhancing the academic capabilities of modern universities and fostering modern university students'perfect personality.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tsai Yuan-pei, higher education, management concept, enlightenment, correction
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