A Study On The Ability-standard Curriculum Design For The Accounting Major In Higher Vocational College

"The Decision of Vigorously Developing Vocational Education" by The State Council was issued in November, 2005, calling on "developing higher vocational education and training talents with high technical ability". As a higher stage of vocational education, higher vocational education is not only an important part of education but also the important foundation for the development of society, the important approach to promote employment and economic development and to raise our national competitive capabilities. Taking the training of "high-skilled applied talents" as the talent training goal of higher vocational education, and advocating the talent-training model of the ability-focused is not only the rational thought but also the needs of higher vocational education to suit the social economical development. Curriculum design is the core of the training of talents, scientific and reasonable curriculum system is the key of the realization of the goal of talents' cultivation. Comparing with traditional vocational educational thought, the ability-standard one possesses a great deal of merits and superiorities. The ability-standard vocational educational thought is the society's essential demand for the vocational education, its core is how to make the students have the necessary demonstrated capacity (ie, comprehensive vocational ability) which a job needs.Based on the ability-standard vocational education, closely combined with the current practice of higher vocational education, this thesis focuses on the integration of the idea of "ability-standard" and higher vocational education in China. On the basis of the good understanding of the " connotation " , " competence " and " curriculum " in the ability-standard higher vocational education, the thesis presents the ability structure of high-skilled applied talents and establishes an ability objective system of the ability-standard higher vocational education. Based on investigation, this thesis points out the current problems existing in the courses of accounting in higher vocational colleges and makes an analysis on the reasons to cause the problems, and it also makes a comparatively systematic research in the objective position, principles, value orientation and basic ideas. Some concrete implementation countermeasures of curriculum design are also presented. Based on the analysis of demand in the higher vocational accounting talents market and accounting major students' professional ability of higher vocational colleges, the curriculum system should be constructed, which is composed of public basic courses, specialized fundamental courses, major technical courses and expansion courses. The cultivation of ability should run through the entire teaching process. The curriculum system not only highlights the training of professional and technical ability but also focuses on the cultivation of the students' key and creative ability, which can really make the students master the comprehensive professional ability and thus the students can do well when facing increasing severe competition. This thesis holds that the ability-standard curriculum design for the accounting major in higher vocational colleges embodies the characteristics of the higher vocational education and is the key of realization of the orientation of training talented technicians of accounting in higher vocational colleges, and it also possesses a massage and referential significance to the curriculum design of other specialties of higher vocational education.