A Study On The Applied Talent And Cultivation

Nowadays, Chinese higher education is undergoing profound changes. On the one hand, Chinese economic develops rapidly in recent years, the level of science and technology increase significantly. Industrial structure has undergone profound changes, and economic growth pattern gradually shift from the mode of extensive development to the mode of intensive development. The adjustment of industrial structure and the improvement of technology content in the course of production and product means the development of Chinese economy, science, society needs lots of high-quality, varieties of talents, especially for the practice-oriented applied talent. On the other hand, higher education in china has turned to mass education from elite education. Mass higher education, which underlying meaning is the adjustment of the type and the structure of higher education, from the unified elite education to the pluralistic mass education, meets the need of social and economic development in China and the public's higher education demand. At the present stage, the applied talent education is the new task and challenge of Chinese higher education.The characteristic of applied talents can be summarized as:emphasizing application, practice-oriented; having the diversified characteristic of being expert at one aspect and being competent for many other aspects, the sustainable development of study abilities, the innovation abilities, the cooperative consciousness and good mental quality. This paper, with literature analysis and comparative analysis, discuss the key problem, what is the applied talent? How to cultivate the applied talent? The paper first analyzes the background of the applied talent in domestic and foreign countries, with the understanding to the applied talent at present in our country, analyzes what is the applied talent, the characterizes of the applied talent, distinguishes the difference between the applied talent and other types of talents, and so on. Then, on this basis, analyze the situation of china's higher education; show the urgency demand for the applied talent and the necessity and feasibility of the applied talent education. The paper also introduces the applied talent education in developed country and reviews the history of the applied talent education in china, besides analyzing of training objectives, training system, training methods, training mechanism, training structure, the paper explore how to cultivate the applied talent, build the applied talent cultivating mode which fit for the new situation in china. The characteristics of paper is applied to undergraduate level talent cultivation as the main object of study, but also related to the college, graduate-level applied talents, trying to establish the applied talent cultivating system, which parallels to the academic talents cultivating system.In the chapter one, the study background together with research literature, contents and study methodology is introduced. The chapter one mainly through the difficult employment situation of university students, development of mass higher education, diverse talents standard and diverse human resources needs raise the key problem of the paper:what is the applied talent? How to cultivate the applied talent? It also shows the necessity of the applied talent education.The chapter two functioning as the basic part of the whole paper that goes forth to a profound analysis. Firstly, analyzes the background of the applied talent in domestic and foreign countries and discuss the understanding to the applied talent at present in our country, then based on the defining to the core concept, the chapter distinguishes the difference between the applied talent and the academic talent, also described characteristics of the applied talent. It shows the applied talent education needs to place emphasis on cultivate the practical ability and the comprehensive quality, the applied talent is a talent type, level of points, which is also the talent that society urgently needs.The chapter three firstly shows the significance of cultivating the applied talent, basing on development of society and economy, sustainable development of high education, satisfying people's requirements for life and production and the mission of higher education entrusted by history. Then the chapter introduces the applied talent education in developed country (U.K., U.S., Germany and Japan) and reviews the history of the applied talent education in china, and generalizes common character of the applied talent education in developed country that works as an important reference to theoretic analysis and structure of models in our country.The chapter four discuss characterizes of the applied talent-cultivating model: practical cultivating idea, market-oriented discipline, applied-oriented curriculum; and modular course content, systematic teaching approach to practical, diversification of industry-university cooperation, one-stop employment guidance, dynamic model structure, basing on the theoretical basis of the applied talent education such as the theory of education and productive labor, pragmatism education, overall development of human, theory of multiple intelligences. From clearing the training objectives, innovating training system, training methods, training mechanism and training structure to discuss how to innovate the applied talent-cultivating model in china. Finally, the article summarizes the core problem and defect of research.