Study On Development Of Community College In China Based On Lifelong Learning

In recent years followed the national politics economic restructuringcomprehensive to be thorough and the social economy continues to develop, theeconomy and society have made great progress with the enormous improvement andenhancement of people’s material well-being life. At present, as the important carrierof life-long learning and community education, the community college shoulders thehistorical task of boosting the higher education popularity, life-long learningdevelopment and construction of the learning society. As a result, it undertakes moreexpectations and responsibilities and its development has given high attention by theCommunist Party and the government.As a new institution in China, compare with thelong-developing history, the perfect theoretical system and the mature developingmodel of the community college in the developed countries like America, Canada andGermany, the construction and development of China’s community college are still inthe primary and experimental stage, therefore it has come across many theoreticalconfusions and practical problems. Thus the need of the research of communitycollege seems more urgent and essential.This research has been carried out theoretically and practically regarding toChina’s community college. The findings and conclusions are as follows:1.Definition of the community college: The community college in China mainlandis established in accordance with the needs of the community system reformation. Itmainly focuses on the vocational training, and also contains higher education,non-academic education, and social cultural education. Meanwhile, in order toconstruct life-long learning education and life-long learning system, the communitycollege enhances the higher vocational education, develops community educationactivities, and improves the community adult education network, which makes ahigher education institution with the professional, community-based andcomprehensive characteristics.2.Development positioning of community college in china based lifelong Learning:based on the logistical relationship analysis between the analysis of communitycollege development orientation and life-long learning, this research has came up witha conception for China’s community college development orientation. The guidanceidea of its development is the Scientific Outlook on Development. Its central functionis located at education function, consultation service, cultural service function and learning society function. Its major characteristic is based on the community andserves for the community. Finally, this research sets the community college as thelife-long learning higher education institution.3.The influencing factors and influencing route model of community college. Thisresearch was carried out through expert interviews, questionnaires, literature reviewand central points’ discussion, by which confirms the major influencing factors ofcommunity college development are from the following five systems: dynamicmechanism, cooperation mechanism, integration mechanism, prompting mechanismand assurance mechanism. Based on the above mechanisms, the influencing routemodel of community college development is constructed and verified.4.The countermeasures of boosting the community college development. Thisresearch centers the orientation of community college to build the community collegedevelopment model of government macroscopic guidance, practical communityenhancement, active participation of social groups, fully support from enterprises andself-construction of the college. Accordingly, the countermeasures of supportingcommunity college development are decided as dynamic mechanism, cooperationmechanism, integration mechanism, prompting mechanism and assurance mechanism.In the future research subjects, the following aspects should be deepened:expending the research targets, research ranges and research perspective.