Theoretical Research In School Competitiveness

Along with the appearance of knowledge-based era and the evolution of education globalization, the competition between schools becomes more and more intense, and therefore the issue of school competitiveness has caused more and more researchers'attention. The dissertation does some theoretical research about school competitiveness referring to achievements about enterprise competitiveness, university competitiveness and core competitiveness done by the former researchers. The main subjects are listed below.Firstly, the dissertation summarizes the content of the research on enterprise competitiveness and university competitiveness including the definition of enterprise competitiveness drew by the Chinese and foreign scholar, the theory explanation how enterprise competitiveness originates, the factors that influence enterprise competitiveness, and definition, constitution and evaluation index system designed for university competitiveness ; and also the intension, characteristic , essential factors and structure of university core competitiveness and so on.Secondly, based on the definition of competition and competitiveness , the dissertation attempts to give a general idea of school competitiveness which can be accepted by most researchers, it also clarify manifestation of school competition and the relationship between school competitiveness and school core competitiveness.Finally, the source of school competitiveness can be distinguished into two parts as internal source and external source. Analysis indicates that the internal source of school competitiveness including the school resources, the school characteristic, the school culture, managed ability, learning ability, innovation ability, a school principal; external source including the geographical environment, the economic environment, the political and legal environment of education,cultural and public opinion environment of education and the technical environment which construct the school environmental competitiveness. In brief, we may regard the school competitiveness as the function of environment. The author also established the source model and formation-mechanism model of school competitiveness in the dissertation.Based on the research above, a theoretical frame of analyzing school competitiveness is initially constructed at the end of the dissertation. It can be taken as a cursory index system in analyzing and evaluating school competitiveness.