Comparison On The Path Of Sino-us Higher Education Massification Under The Different Culture View

Since our government implemented the expansion policy in 1999, the higher education has been coming into the process of massification. The massification has not only brought a tremendous impact on higher education but also a huge controversy. Many scholars have constructed serious researches on the higher education of America, which is the origin country of the theory of higher education massification, from different views. They want to derive inspirations and references from the study and make a theoretical help for the healthy development of our country's higher education.The potential influence of one country's culture on the development of higher education is very deep, especially the higher education culture idea which integrates the value, the social psychology, the mind habit and the behavior style. It is not only influences the people's view and evaluation to the various issues in higher education field, such as the quality idea of higher education, the view to graduation rate and the acceptance level to the education diversification and so on, but also determines the higher education question's decision-making and actions in a large extent, such as the choice to the higher education mode, the accept and reject to the higher education quality assurance and assessment and so on. There are great differences in the culture between China and America. The differences have not only caused the different higher education idea and manage system but also led the implementation and the vary of process and the result of higher education massification in these two countries. Starting from the analysis to the different higher education massification between China and America, through a comparative analysis of themselves motivation, the results and the problems, the essay makes a cultural explanation and proposes the countermeasures from the cultural perspective. All of these will have an important theoretical and practical significance to the Chinese higher education which is in the stage of"massification"and taking reconsideration and planning the education's long-term development.The paper is divided into four parts. Part one is the introduction which briefly introduces the reason of the comparative interpretation to the higher education massification between China and America under the cultural perspective. The significance of the study is to deepen people's sense of questions and offer a new perspective for the solution to many questions in the massification so as to make a deep level consideration from the culture. Part two mainly makes definition for some confused concepts and compares the different paths of higher education massification between China and America. Part three mainly presents a cultural interpretation to the questions in the process of higher education massification. The questions mainly related to the people's choice of high school, the graduation rate, the quality and assimilation of higher education, etc. Part four proposes the two countermeasures from the cultural prospective, one refers to the idea transforming and the other refers to the higher education culture's secularization changing.