A Study On Improving The General Education In Higher Vocational Colleges

With the rapid development in science & technology and social economy, there is higher requirement for the people. Higher Vocational Colleges, as the basis of nurturing talents, must adapt themselves to the development of age, are expected to nurture the talents with high quality, with sound structure of knowledge, ability, developed in an all-round way.Influenced by our traditional stereotype of thinking for a long time, people take it for granted that higher vocational colleges, as the basis of train talents, should put the emphasis on the education of vocational techniques. Under the stereotype, students trained suffered increasingly narrowed scope of knowledge and lack of basic knowledge and poor social adaptability. In this modern society, it is far from enough only master the vocational knowledge and technique, therefore, modern people should possess a variety of qualities, such as the qualities of science and culture, creation, psychology, aesthetics, and information. The development of these qualities demand sound general education, as well as sound vocational education.This article puts forward the view that general education in higher vocational colleges should be enhanced to meet new challenges in this modern society geared to the current abuse of overstress on vocational techniques, indifference to the comprehensive qualities. This argument has significant theoretical and practical values in enriching and developing the research on general education, offering a necessary reference to the educational reform in higher vocational education.It covers the following parts,Part One, expounding the connotative of higher vocational education and general education. As an important part of higher education, higher vocational education is to nurture the advanced vocational talents. General education is a fundamental education to enable the educates to master knowledge, concepts, tools, and means to promote the all-round, harmonious development in both soul and body.Part Two, Explaining the necessity of enhancing general education in higher vocational colleges. With the rapid development in science and technology, increasing combination of human knowledge life-long study and frequent change of jobs, there is a higher requirement for the training of people. General education as a overall education of a person, meets the need, so it is a necessity.Part Three, Analyzing the existing problems and possible reasons of general education in higher vocational colleges. Nowadays, curricular setting influenced money worship and traditional education model is over specified, which leads to the students'narrow view of the world: Lack of cultural education, over exaggerating the intelligence role of education cause the ignorance of people's all-round education; The assessment system of teaching need further improvement with no sound system in administrating general education; Influence by the specified education, the teaching staff of general...