Research On The Evolution And The Trend Of Development Of College Counselor System

The connotation of college counselor system at different stages of development isnot the same, but the essential attribute which is reflected by it is the same, which issuitable for China's ideological and political education system. With the gradualdeepening of the reform of higher education, the ideological and political education ofcollege students is attached unprecedented importance, and the value of counselors ineducating people is becoming increasingly prominent, which makes great challenge tothe construction of counselor system. In other words, many problems about counselorsoccurring in recent years are closely linked with counselor system, or the problemsdepend on the system. Counselor system has important function, including ensuing theobjective of personnel training in socialism universities, educating the college studentsthe socialist ideology, and guaranteeing the stability of the campus.Over60years' development of counselor system fully demonstrated its importancein the ideological and political education of college students. Exploring the evolution ofcounselor system prudently on the base of human comprehensive development theory ofMarxism, Marxist's theory about the institutional change and new institutionaleconomics of institutional change, analyzing the reasons, model and laws of theevolution in-depth, and studying the theory of counselor system on a deeper level.Summarizing the basic experience of the counselor system, in addition to universal andgeneral experience, we should focus on the unique experience of counselor system'sconstruction, which is summed up in three aspects, including considering the counselor'swork as a science, insisting the student-centered values, and improving the political andprofessional ability of counselors.By the survey conducted among904counselors in128colleges and universitiesacross the country, the author takes Liaoning counselor system as a sample to analyze theadministrative departments of education, and explores the implementation, constructionand development of counselor system. According to the analysis of the examples, theproblems in counselor system are analyzed in terms of the overall system, work content,provided systems, development systems, and management systems. There are both opportunities and challenges. Currently counselor system is also facing unprecedentedopportunity of development, which is the echoes of practice in the ideological andpolitical education, is the inevitable choice of popularization of higher education, is thedemands of the system object change, and is also the internal demand of counselors.In the current background of rapid development of higher education, colleges anduniversities around the world attach great importance to student affairs administration. Asan important part of the higher education system, college student counseling andmanagement system is an important system of personnel training in colleges anduniversities, which is existing in higher education in different forms due to differentcountries. By inspecting the typical examples of student affairs management in theUnited States, Britain, and Japan, and comparing with our counselor system something incommon are found, but also different characteristics are found. Inspiration and referenceare as followed: First, more scientific connotation of counselor system, the secondenhancing student-centered philosophy, the third strengthening the "professional, special"team of professional counselors, and the fourth, improving work-related laws andregulations.On discussing the future development of counselor system, not only studying itstrends, but also put forward to improve the implementation. Analysis of trends incounselor system is not a microscopic forecast on a given specific system at theoperational level, but from the development of certain aspects of the scope of thecounselor system inspects the developing trends in counselor system, including the trendof completing the counselor system, trend of counselors' specialization and integration,the trend of optimizing counselors' responsibilities and roles, the trend of counselorsworking methods innovativing, and the trend of perfecting counselors institutional theory.On the aspect of perfecting methods of counselor system, namely promoting institutionalmechanisms for the counselor, working system, provided system, development system,management system are carried out a detailed analysis and discussion, and measures ormethods of guidance of strengthening and improving the counselor system are proposed.