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A Historical Review And Study On Social Service As One Of The Functions In Chinese Universities

Posted on:2006-07-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J F DuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360182483567Subject:Higher Education
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Since reform and opening-up, the relation between universities and society inChina has changed greatly from isolation to combination. The concept ofdevelopment and the idea of reform are renewing unceasingly. With thesebackgrounds, this dissertation is taken the function of social service of Chineseuniversities as its study object. The author observed the process of activity and theoryof social service, researched them at the visual angle of system reform in China, andprospected the imaginable development in the future.A historical review shows that social service function of university in China hasthree origins: combing education with labor, education serving for economicdevelopment, higher education adapting to the government's concept of development.Synchronously, the universities imposed upon the reform of science-technologysystem and higher education system, actively expanded profit service activities, andthen set up an Industry-Education-Combining model with Chinese characteristics.The beneficial experiences of social service are: firstly, insisting on gradualreform, testing truth with practice as criterion;secondly, giving more power touniversities to build self-awareness. And the disadvantages are: ignoring the internalprinciple of education;providing much less public service than other countries.The relation between universities and society will be tighter and tighter, souniversities should attach more importance to social service as one function.Notwithstanding every university has its own best way to serve for the society, theconclusions of this dissertation are: in the future, research university of China shouldbe multi-value, public-paramountcy, and entrepreneurial, having entrepreneur spirit,academic standard, and valuable tolerance, and will strengthen public activities suchas serving, criticizing and piloting the society.
Keywords/Search Tags:functions of university, social service, public service, entrepreneurial university
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