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University Education For The Devlopment Of Undergraduate’s Innovative Qualities

Posted on:2014-01-31Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1267330425975218Subject:Higher Education
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In early1996, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issued a report entitled "the knowledge-based economy", put forward the concept of "knowledge-based economy". The event raised a tide of social change throughout the world. Stepping into the21st century means the arrival of the era of knowledge-driven economy.’Innovation’as the main characteristics of this era is moving into wider field and exerting deeper influence, which are people cannot be denied. The social development is based on the knowledge. One important side, knowledge becomes the key factor in the long-term economic growth, another side, the talent is becoming important more and more. Worldwide competition is admitted as the competition of human quality. Out of the people’s quality, innovation is the fundamental factor. To promote people’s innovative qualities is the contemporary hot topic. This trend also cause most of universities to focus on people’s innovative qualities development. In the national university education real-life context, how about the undergraduates’innovative quality development? What are the promote or inhibit elements respectively for undergraduates’innovative quality development? All of the questions need further investigation and exploration.Having analysed the domestic and foreign research literature on undergraduates’innovative ability development, you will find there are an amount of valuable research achievement, also many prominent shortcomings: first, the core concepts have no unified explaination; Second, the study about the relationship between uninversity education and undergraduates’innovative qualities development on the micro level of university education is so less that people cannot accurately distinguishing and know which aspects of the university education in what way to influence student’s innovative qualities development, the degree of influence, all of these should be explored further; Third, the degree of cohesion and tightness between theory study and practice research is not enough; Fourth, the comprehensive study combining quantitative research means with qualitative research means is rare; Fifth, the research direction and the research level are in uneven result in the relating important problem exploration is relatively backward either on theory or on practice.The purpose of the study is to research the influence results i.e. how the university education affects students’innovative quanlities development. On the perspective of the theory of organization, discipline and discourse, observing and inspecting university life, further more, exploring the internal logical relations within university. Throughout the discussing process, the main line of the research obviously reflects the sociology idea. With the purpose to make clear the main influencing aspects, the results and the existing practical problems in the university education process. On the basis of sociological investigation to examine the current university education, and put forward reasonable suggestions and strategies for improving the quality of university education. The survey methods are including interview, participant observation, network discourse analysis and questionnaire. Using a variety of methods ensure the survey results detailed and effective.The main topics involved in the study include:research on innovation and its theoretical spectrum; point out the constitute factors and performance characteristics of innovative qualities; Analyse the relationship between university education and people’s innovative qualities development; from the academic tradition, university culture tradition formed in development history of university education to find out the discuss points; under the theoretical framework of organization, discipline and discourse to inspect university life through sociological methods; refer to the history and different disciplines to settle the current problems in university education in the process of undergraduates’innovative qualities development. Each topic is a unit. All of these topics connecting together form the logic framework of this study.There are two parts throughout the study analysis:first, from the lateral structural relationship, to comb out the constituting factors of people’s innovative quality, meanwhile to explore the investigation core of university education under the theoretical analysis framework of the organization, the discipline and the discourse system. The innovative quality system and the investigation core of university education are the frame of reference to further discuss the relationship and the influence results between university education and people’s innovative quality development. Second, from the perspective of effectiveness, to diagnose out the crux of the current personnel training in university education. The study is an exploration towards current practical problems existing in undergraduate’s innovative quality development, eventually to afford rational response how to mediate the relationship between university education and undergraduate’s innovative quality development, and to provide the realistic basis can be used for reference for university education reform as well as the problems of the educational activities.The basic conclusions:First, the subjectivity of the students has not been valued. Second, the established way of thinking affects the innovative qualities development effectively. Third, discipline system leads to differentiation between liberal education and professional training. Fourth, there is contradiction between students’development and university discipline system.
Keywords/Search Tags:university education, innovative qualities, university life, sociological investigation
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